Kalan
Kalan was given to 26 boys in 2025, #4,086 among boys’ names; 1,588 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,550 Americans named Kalan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 14 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kalan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kalan?
#4,086 among boys’ names, 2025
Kalan rose from #4,129 in 2015 to #4,086 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 13.0 to 15.2 per million.
64 babies in 1993, the peak
Kalan peaked in 1993, when 64 babies were given it (45 boys, #1,855 among boys’ names). The 26 births of 2025 are 41% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 26 | #4,086 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 23 | #4,496 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 25 | #4,274 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 26 | #4,137 | |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,395 | 23 | #4,432 |
| 2020 | under 5 | 31 | #3,529 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 24 | #4,275 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 40 | #2,969 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 27 | #3,924 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 24 | #4,256 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 25 | #4,129 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 36 | #3,128 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 30 | #3,538 | |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,143 | 30 | #3,585 |
| 2011 | under 5 | 39 | #2,972 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 34 | #3,274 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 27 | #3,872 | |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,909 | 40 | #2,980 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,465 | 44 | #2,740 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,528 | 27 | #3,728 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,335 | 22 | #4,126 |
| 2004 | under 5 | 19 | #4,505 | |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,736 | 22 | #3,900 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,130 | 24 | #3,614 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,690 | 35 | #2,711 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,778 | 21 | #3,845 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,958 | 34 | #2,585 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,251 | 40 | #2,251 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,393 | 42 | #2,112 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,458 | 41 | #2,087 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,998 | 41 | #2,039 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,981 | 29 | #2,584 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,081 | 45 | #1,855 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,453 | 32 | #2,328 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,251 | 28 | #2,495 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,663 | 42 | #1,853 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,318 | 40 | #1,874 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,994 | 31 | #2,061 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,228 | 25 | #2,300 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,820 | 17 | #2,945 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,430 | 27 | #2,097 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,568 | 16 | #2,884 |
| 1983 | under 5 | 13 | #3,323 | |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,137 | 12 | #3,586 |
| 1981 | under 5 | 15 | #2,962 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 6 | #5,896 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 8 | #4,624 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 6 | #5,482 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 6 | #5,122 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 6 | #4,935 |
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 Kalan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,588 Americans recorded as Kalan, 15% are girls and 85% boys. In 2025 it went to 26 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 Kalan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kalan, and how old are they?
1,550 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,588 Americans ever recorded as Kalan. The median Kalan alive today is 26 years old; half are between 14 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 1,283 people named Kalan (259 women and girls, 1,024 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,409 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 29 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 574 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 583 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 362 |
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).
How common is the spelling Kalan?
Kalan is a less common spelling of Callan: SSA has recorded 1,588 Kalan and 12,634 Callan since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 34,715 babies since 1880, Kalan is the eighth most given (4.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 2,368 babies (1.1%), the sixth 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 Kalan
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 Kalan and names like it
- Compare Kalan and CallanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKalan peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kalan since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Kalan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kalan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.