Kelan
Kelan was given to 20 boys in 2025, #4,952 among boys’ names; 1,810 Americans have been recorded with it since 1956 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,760 Americans named Kelan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 14 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kelan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kelan?
#4,952 among boys’ names, 2025
Kelan fell from #2,702 in 2015 to #4,952 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 23.5 to 11.7 per million.
201 babies in 2007, the peak
Kelan peaked in 2007, when 201 boys were given it, #978 among boys’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #4,952 | 11.7 |
| 2024 | 17 | #5,551 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 25 | #4,281 | 14.6 |
| 2022 | 19 | #5,122 | 10.9 |
| 2021 | 20 | #4,856 | 11.4 |
| 2020 | 30 | #3,615 | 17.4 |
| 2019 | 29 | #3,760 | 16.2 |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,023 | 21.5 |
| 2017 | 33 | #3,415 | 17.8 |
| 2016 | 32 | #3,480 | 16.9 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 45 | #2,702 | 23.5 |
| 2014 | 47 | #2,600 | 24.5 |
| 2013 | 48 | #2,547 | 25.4 |
| 2012 | 61 | #2,179 | 32.2 |
| 2011 | 58 | #2,252 | 30.5 |
| 2010 | 67 | #2,048 | 34.9 |
| 2009 | 73 | #1,947 | 36.8 |
| 2008 | 92 | #1,672 | 45.1 |
| 2007 | 201 | #978 | 96.8 |
| 2006 | 115 | #1,389 | 56.0 |
| 2005 | 33 | #3,127 | 16.5 |
| 2004 | 28 | #3,410 | 14.1 |
| 2003 | 35 | #2,816 | 17.7 |
| 2002 | 29 | #3,141 | 14.9 |
| 2001 | 45 | #2,260 | 23.2 |
| 2000 | 44 | #2,234 | 22.4 |
| 1999 | 37 | #2,434 | 19.3 |
| 1998 | 29 | #2,823 | 15.2 |
| 1997 | 34 | #2,422 | 18.0 |
| 1996 | 30 | #2,564 | 15.8 |
| 1995 | 31 | #2,466 | 16.3 |
| 1994 | 25 | #2,897 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 26 | #2,745 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 27 | #2,635 | 13.5 |
| 1991 | 23 | #2,869 | 11.4 |
| 1990 | 25 | #2,658 | 12.2 |
| 1989 | 22 | #2,842 | 11.0 |
| 1988 | 18 | #3,025 | 9.4 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,416 | 5.4 |
| 1986 | 19 | #2,731 | 10.3 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,921 | 6.0 |
| 1984 | 17 | #2,756 | 9.4 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,755 | 6.1 |
| 1982 | 18 | #2,646 | 9.9 |
| 1981 | 12 | #3,514 | 6.7 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,325 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,457 | 7.0 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,498 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,864 | 5.7 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,911 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 11 | #3,229 | 7.0 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,486 | 3.2 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,874 | 5.2 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,406 | 3.8 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,347 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,232 | 3.8 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,808 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 8 | #3,085 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kelan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kelan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kelan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kelan, and how old are they?
1,760 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,810 Americans ever recorded as Kelan. The median Kelan alive today is 19 years old; half are between 14 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 1,551 people named Kelan (82 women and girls, 1,469 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,653 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 20 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 65 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 310 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 967 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 401 |
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 Kelan born?
The states with the most babies named Kelan are Texas, Georgia and California, with 56% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 118 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 45 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 41 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 31 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 18 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 13 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Virginia | 12 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Alabama | 9 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Louisiana | 9 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | not ranked | 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 Kelan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Kelan?
Kelan is a less common spelling of Kellan: SSA has recorded 1,810 Kelan and 11,269 Kellan since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 39,847 babies since 1880, Kelan is the fourth most given (4.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 612 babies (3.3%), the seventh 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 Kelan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1950-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Jomar | 1,951 | |
| Yamil | 1,601 | |
| Alexsander | 1,266 | |
| Josemanuel | 1,302 | |
| Nikhil | 5,404 | |
| Joseangel | 1,235 |
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 Kelan and names like it
- Compare Kelan and KellanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKelan peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kelan since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Kelan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kelan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.