Kalan — #4460 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kalan

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,320 babies named Kalan between 1974 and 2024, spanning 51 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kalan currently holds the #4460 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 45 babies received it in a single year. Kalan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 242 additional births since 1982.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kalan performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 374 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Kalan shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 55 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Missouri. In total, SSA state-level files list Kalan in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kalan 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 1,320 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.