Kelen — boys' name

What the Data Says About Kelen

The Social Security Administration has registered 189 babies named Kelen between 1982 and 2019, spanning 38 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kelen currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 15 babies received it in a single year. Kelen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 25 additional births since 1995.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kelen performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 80 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Kelen shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kelen 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 189 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.