Kallan
Kallan was given to 82 boys in 2025, #1,912 among boys’ names; 1,206 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,190 Americans named Kallan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 4 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kallan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kallan?
#1,912 among boys’ names, 2025
Kallan rose from #3,116 in 2015 to #1,912 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 19.3 to 48.0 per million.
91 babies in 2025, the peak
Kallan peaked in 2025, when 91 babies were given it (82 boys, #1,912 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 59 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,484 | 82 | #1,912 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,661 | 59 | #2,387 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,714 | 47 | #2,754 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,815 | 76 | #2,010 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,612 | 49 | #2,635 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,587 | 43 | #2,820 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,521 | 35 | #3,298 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,172 | 47 | #2,650 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,175 | 39 | #3,038 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,576 | 27 | #3,930 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #15,403 | 37 | #3,116 |
| 2014 | under 5 | 44 | #2,731 | |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,900 | 32 | #3,372 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,718 | 34 | #3,269 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,019 | 26 | #3,946 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,350 | 23 | #4,302 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,411 | 11 | #7,458 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,930 | 15 | #5,923 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,209 | 17 | #5,319 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,963 | 5 | #13,008 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,409 | 7 | #9,622 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,275 | 8 | #8,527 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,831 | 12 | #6,053 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,529 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,449 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,847 | 7 | #8,662 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,320 | 6 | #9,292 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,875 | 6 | #9,046 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,734 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,147 | 6 | #8,449 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,305 | 5 | #9,577 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,854 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,077 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,455 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,193 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 9 | #5,588 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 5 | #8,548 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 5 | #7,891 | |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,961 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,435 | under 5 |
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 Kallan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,206 Americans recorded as Kallan, 32% are girls and 68% boys. In 2025 it went to 9 girls and 82 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kallan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kallan, and how old are they?
1,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,206 Americans ever recorded as Kallan. The median Kallan alive today is 10 years old; half are between 4 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 830 people named Kallan (330 women and girls, 500 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 795 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 100 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 365 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 729 |
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 Kallan?
Kallan is a less common spelling of Callan: SSA has recorded 1,206 Kallan and 12,634 Callan since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 41,718 babies since 1880, Kallan is the eighth most given (2.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 91 of their 2,996 babies (3.0%), the fourth 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 Kallan
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 Kallan and names like it
- Compare Kallan and CallanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kallan alive today were born 2013-2025.
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