Kallen
Kallen was given to 150 boys in 2025, #1,302 among boys’ names; 3,103 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,070 Americans named Kallen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kallen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kallen?
#1,302 among boys’ names, 2025
Kallen fell from #1,242 in 2015 to #1,302 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 76.7 to 87.8 per million.
167 babies in 2014, the peak
Kallen peaked in 2014, when 167 babies were given it (159 boys, #1,178 among boys’ names). The 158 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 95% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,390 | 150 | #1,302 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,226 | 123 | #1,478 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,254 | 138 | #1,363 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,452 | 141 | #1,334 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,317 | 149 | #1,277 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,668 | 145 | #1,268 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,096 | 124 | #1,416 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,828 | 113 | #1,516 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,529 | 130 | #1,369 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,577 | 138 | #1,311 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #9,785 | 147 | #1,242 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,469 | 159 | #1,178 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,864 | 112 | #1,471 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,201 | 122 | #1,381 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,046 | 136 | #1,268 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,919 | 117 | #1,419 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,177 | 80 | #1,844 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,167 | 48 | #2,608 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,450 | 56 | #2,322 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,299 | 46 | #2,603 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,499 | 29 | #3,419 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,276 | 32 | #3,110 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,007 | 24 | #3,676 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,631 | 33 | #2,845 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,951 | 21 | #3,905 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,993 | 30 | #2,947 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,116 | 28 | #2,980 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,904 | 15 | #4,522 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,318 | 21 | #3,395 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,824 | 16 | #4,093 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,371 | 13 | #4,651 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,454 | 12 | #4,952 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,332 | 10 | #5,561 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,069 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,721 | 6 | #7,741 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,068 | 18 | #3,382 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,340 | 7 | #6,573 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,984 | 8 | #5,455 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,455 | 9 | #4,747 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,962 | 10 | #4,299 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,730 | 6 | #6,159 |
| 1984 | under 5 | 7 | #5,264 | |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,004 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 8 | #4,808 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 6 | #3,833 |
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 Kallen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,103 Americans recorded as Kallen, 12% are girls and 88% boys. In 2025 it went to 8 girls and 150 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kallen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kallen, and how old are they?
3,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,103 Americans ever recorded as Kallen. The median Kallen alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 2,159 people named Kallen (350 women and girls, 1,809 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,227 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 226 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 974 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,860 |
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).
Where are babies named Kallen born?
The states with the most babies named Kallen are Texas, Wisconsin and California, with 39% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Wisconsin is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 15 | #1,323 | 0.7× |
| Wisconsin | 9 | #544 | 1.1× |
| California | 8 | #1,918 | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 8 | #981 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,549 | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,085 | 0.6× |
| Minnesota | 6 | #755 | 1.1× |
| Washington | 6 | #948 | 0.8× |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #662 | 1.1× |
| Tennessee | 6 | #985 | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kallen with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 42,048 babies since 1880, Kallen is the fifth most given (7.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 158 of their 2,910 babies (5.4%), the third 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 Kallen
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 Kallen and names like it
- Compare Kallen and CallanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKallen peaked in 2014.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kallen since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Kallen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kallen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.