Kallen — #1469 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kallen

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,593 babies named Kallen between 1963 and 2024, spanning 62 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kallen currently holds the #1469 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 159 babies received it in a single year. Kallen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 352 additional births since 1983.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kallen performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,298 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Kallen shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 190 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Kallen in 28 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kallen 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 2,593 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.