Kelen
Kelen was last recorded in 2019, when 8 babies were given it; 214 Americans have been recorded with it between 1982 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kelen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kelen?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,327, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 2007, the peak
Kelen peaked in 2007, when 15 boys were given it, #5,796 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | under 5 | 8 | #9,327 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 7 | #10,229 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 7 | #10,209 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 9 | #8,465 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 8 | #9,308 | |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,203 | 7 | #10,227 |
| 2010 | under 5 | 14 | #6,215 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 10 | #8,010 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 5 | #13,621 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 15 | #5,796 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 5 | #18,624 | 6 | #11,381 |
| 2005 | under 5 | 7 | #9,645 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 12 | #6,338 | |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,067 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,800 | 9 | #7,351 |
| 2001 | under 5 | 8 | #7,956 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 8 | #7,830 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 6 | #8,726 | |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,536 | 6 | #8,361 |
| 1994 | under 5 | 6 | #8,295 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 8 | #6,404 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 5 | #7,919 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 7 | #5,790 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 5 | #6,789 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 6 | #6,027 |
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 Kelen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 214 Americans recorded as Kelen, 12% are girls and 88% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kelen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kelen, and how old are they?
An estimated 210 Americans named Kelen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 16 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 436 people named Kelen (190 women and girls, 246 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 211 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Kelen is a less common spelling of Kellen: SSA has recorded 214 Kelen and 18,307 Kellen since 1880.
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kelen
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.