Kalen — #2045 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kalen

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,556 babies named Kalen between 1959 and 2024, spanning 66 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kalen currently holds the #2045 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 169 babies received it in a single year. Kalen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,458 additional births since 1952.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kalen performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 1,282 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Kalen shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 415 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Kalen in 30 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kalen 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 4,556 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.