Kahlen — unisex name

What the Data Says About Kahlen

The Social Security Administration has registered 267 babies named Kahlen between 2000 and 2014, spanning 15 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kahlen currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 2005, when 68 babies received it in a single year. Kahlen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 67 additional births since 1995.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kahlen performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 225 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Kahlen shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 7 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Kahlen in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kahlen 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 267 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.