Kaelen — #5749 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kaelen

The Social Security Administration has registered 726 babies named Kaelen between 1990 and 2024, spanning 35 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kaelen currently holds the #5749 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2009, when 42 babies received it in a single year. Kaelen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 340 additional births since 1986.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kaelen performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 282 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Kaelen shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 46 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Colorado and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Kaelen in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kaelen in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 726 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.