Kaelan
Kaelan was given to 19 boys in 2025, #5,116 among boys’ names; 1,951 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,920 Americans named Kaelan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 16 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaelan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kaelan?
#5,116 among boys’ names, 2025
Kaelan fell from #2,884 in 2015 to #5,116 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 21.4 to 11.1 per million.
112 babies in 1998, the peak
Kaelan peaked in 1998, when 112 babies were given it (91 boys, #1,306 among boys’ names). The 19 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 19 | #5,116 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 30 | #3,738 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 17 | #5,560 | |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,421 | 12 | #7,018 |
| 2021 | under 5 | 16 | #5,658 | |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,227 | 15 | #5,827 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,620 | 22 | #4,551 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,807 | 17 | #5,417 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,159 | 40 | #2,978 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,564 | 24 | #4,254 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #8,197 | 41 | #2,884 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,461 | 22 | #4,456 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,600 | 36 | #3,092 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,758 | 33 | #3,330 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,644 | 33 | #3,334 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,696 | 47 | #2,604 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,236 | 57 | #2,308 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,558 | 47 | #2,654 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,560 | 50 | #2,518 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,304 | 54 | #2,333 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,569 | 59 | #2,093 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,926 | 54 | #2,173 |
| 2003 | 43 | #3,381 | 54 | #2,087 |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,821 | 69 | #1,698 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,931 | 67 | #1,722 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,071 | 80 | #1,508 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,646 | 81 | #1,439 |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,030 | 91 | #1,306 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,436 | 81 | #1,367 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,531 | 62 | #1,589 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,991 | 61 | #1,550 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,851 | 53 | #1,695 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,000 | 21 | #3,193 |
| 1992 | under 5 | 23 | #2,948 | |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,152 | 11 | #4,927 |
| 1989 | under 5 | 5 | #8,537 | |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,681 | 7 | #6,113 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,441 | 9 | #4,743 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Kaelan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,951 Americans recorded as Kaelan, 22% are girls and 78% boys. In 2025 it went to 19 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kaelan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaelan, and how old are they?
1,920 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,951 Americans ever recorded as Kaelan. The median Kaelan alive today is 23 years old; half are between 16 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 1,689 people named Kaelan (424 women and girls, 1,265 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,814 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 301 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,240 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 377 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Kaelan born?
The states with the most babies named Kaelan are California, Texas and Florida, with 78% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 129 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 81 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 22 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 20 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New York | 19 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Washington | 7 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Louisiana | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Colorado | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kaelan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 34,031 babies since 1880, Kaelan is the seventh most given (5.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 2,349 babies (<1%), again the seventh most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kaelan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Kaelan and names like it
- Compare Kaelan and CallanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKaelan peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaelan since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Kaelan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kaelan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.