Kaelen
Kaelen was given to 12 boys in 2025, #6,990 among boys’ names; 1,079 Americans have been recorded with it since 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,060 Americans named Kaelen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 15 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaelen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kaelen?
#6,990 among boys’ names, 2025
Kaelen fell from #5,165 in 2015 to #6,990 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 9.4 to 7.0 per million.
60 babies in 2008, the peak
Kaelen peaked in 2008, when 60 babies were given it (39 boys, #3,036 among boys’ names). The 12 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 12 | #6,990 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 16 | #5,768 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 10 | #7,975 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 10 | #8,029 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 14 | #6,176 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 13 | #6,455 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 27 | #3,947 | |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,088 | 10 | #7,877 |
| 2017 | under 5 | 15 | #5,927 | |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,283 | 20 | #4,859 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #17,730 | 18 | #5,165 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,782 | 15 | #5,862 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,423 | 22 | #4,388 |
| 2012 | under 5 | 25 | #4,070 | |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,417 | 32 | #3,397 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,181 | 31 | #3,496 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,296 | 42 | #2,871 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,443 | 39 | #3,036 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,259 | 27 | #3,834 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,961 | 25 | #3,940 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,301 | 26 | #3,668 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,600 | 18 | #4,684 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,219 | 31 | #3,071 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,222 | 25 | #3,501 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,460 | 24 | #3,560 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,388 | 25 | #3,364 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,647 | 23 | #3,434 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,918 | 26 | #3,050 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,654 | 23 | #3,206 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,386 | 26 | #2,867 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,546 | 24 | #2,972 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,316 | 23 | #3,059 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,110 | 9 | #5,978 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,789 | 7 | #6,893 |
| 1990 | under 5 | 6 | #7,614 | |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,469 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,753 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,724 | under 5 |
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 Kaelen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,079 Americans recorded as Kaelen, 32% are girls and 68% boys. In 2025 it went to 12 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 Kaelen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaelen, and how old are they?
1,060 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,079 Americans ever recorded as Kaelen. The median Kaelen alive today is 21 years old; half are between 15 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 995 people named Kaelen (365 women and girls, 630 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 996 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 170 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 657 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 235 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 31,677 babies since 1880, Kaelen is the eighth most given (3.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 969 babies (1.2%), again the eighth 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 Kaelen
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 Kaelen and names like it
- Compare Kaelen and CallenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKaelen peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaelen since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Kaelen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kaelen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.