Kahlan
Kahlan is given to both girls and boys: 10 girls and 10 boys were given it in 2025 (#9,756 among girls’ names and #7,936 among boys’, #10,448 among all names counting both); 1,569 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,560 Americans named Kahlan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 11 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kahlan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kahlan?
#9,756 among girls’ names, 2025
Kahlan fell from #2,446 in 2015 to #9,756 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 42.0 to 6.2 per million.
160 babies in 2010, the peak
Kahlan peaked in 2010, when 160 babies were given it (155 girls, #1,461 among girls’ names). The 20 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 13% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,756 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,513 | 11.1 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,277 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,562 | 11.0 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,051 | 12.2 |
| 2020 | 28 | #4,691 | 17.3 |
| 2019 | 33 | #4,298 | 19.7 |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,958 | 21.8 |
| 2017 | 59 | #2,854 | 34.2 |
| 2016 | 56 | #2,991 | 31.6 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 75 | #2,446 | 42.0 |
| 2014 | 80 | #2,315 | 44.8 |
| 2013 | 95 | #2,041 | 54.1 |
| 2012 | 125 | #1,688 | 71.0 |
| 2011 | 142 | #1,549 | 80.7 |
| 2010 | 155 | #1,461 | 87.2 |
| 2009 | 105 | #1,985 | 57.2 |
| 2008 | 65 | #2,786 | 34.4 |
| 2007 | 52 | #3,270 | 27.0 |
| 2006 | 34 | #4,306 | 17.9 |
| 2005 | 44 | #3,430 | 23.8 |
| 2004 | 43 | #3,460 | 23.4 |
| 2003 | 47 | #3,153 | 25.7 |
| 2002 | 35 | #3,759 | 19.5 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,753 | 13.9 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,467 | 14.9 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,523 | 10.7 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,872 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,474 | 6.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kahlan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,569 Americans recorded as Kahlan, 95% are girls and 5% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kahlan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kahlan, and how old are they?
1,560 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,569 Americans ever recorded as Kahlan. The median Kahlan alive today is 15 years old; half are between 11 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,342 people named Kahlan (1,268 women and girls, 74 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,406 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 945 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 606 |
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 85,093 babies since 1880, Kahlan is the eighth most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 619 babies (3.2%), the seventh most given that year.
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 Kahlan
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 Kahlan and names like it
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