Kellan
Kellan was given to 215 boys in 2025, #1,031 among boys’ names; 11,269 Americans have been recorded with it since 1958 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,100 Americans named Kellan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 9 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kellan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kellan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kellan is “a male given name from Irish.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kellan?
#1,031 among boys’ names, 2025
Kellan fell from #398 in 2015 to #1,031 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.40 to 0.13 per 1,000.
870 babies in 2013, the peak
Kellan peaked in 2013, when 870 babies were given it (843 boys, #368 among boys’ names). The 223 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 26% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 215 | #1,031 | 0.13 |
| 2024 | 252 | #921 | 0.15 |
| 2023 | 257 | #907 | 0.15 |
| 2022 | 284 | #854 | 0.16 |
| 2021 | 285 | #836 | 0.16 |
| 2020 | 370 | #689 | 0.21 |
| 2019 | 308 | #769 | 0.17 |
| 2018 | 438 | #617 | 0.24 |
| 2017 | 503 | #552 | 0.27 |
| 2016 | 601 | #500 | 0.32 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 776 | #398 | 0.40 |
| 2014 | 809 | #385 | 0.42 |
| 2013 | 843 | #368 | 0.45 |
| 2012 | 813 | #373 | 0.43 |
| 2011 | 819 | #364 | 0.43 |
| 2010 | 807 | #366 | 0.42 |
| 2009 | 400 | #624 | 0.20 |
| 2008 | 161 | #1,134 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 228 | #883 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 128 | #1,298 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 134 | #1,193 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 127 | #1,202 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 101 | #1,351 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 85 | #1,488 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 73 | #1,619 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 61 | #1,789 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 57 | #1,767 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 56 | #1,801 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 44 | #2,040 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 43 | #2,029 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 40 | #2,066 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 45 | #1,873 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 43 | #1,913 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 55 | #1,604 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 42 | #1,872 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 46 | #1,739 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 51 | #1,577 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 36 | #1,862 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 51 | #1,432 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 65 | #1,179 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 47 | #1,439 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 33 | #1,747 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 43 | #1,456 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 41 | #1,528 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 21 | #2,379 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,327 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,735 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kellan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 11,269 Americans recorded as Kellan, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 8 girls and 215 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kellan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kellan, and how old are they?
11,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 11,269 Americans ever recorded as Kellan. The median Kellan alive today is 13 years old; half are between 9 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 9,171 people named Kellan (515 women and girls, 8,656 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,559 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 13 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 819 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,270 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,020 |
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 Kellan born?
The states with the most babies named Kellan are California, Texas and Pennsylvania, with 33% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 24 | #948 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 17 | #1,237 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | #644 | 1.0× |
| Virginia | 14 | #541 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 10 | #845 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,413 | 0.7× |
| South Carolina | 8 | #581 | 0.6× |
| New York | 7 | #1,495 | 0.6× |
| Washington | 7 | #851 | 1.7× |
| Colorado | 7 | #721 | 1.3× |
Where Kellan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kellan is most over-represented in Washington: since 1958 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Kellan 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 39,847 babies since 1880, Kellan is the second most given (28% of them). In 2025 it was given to 223 of their 612 babies (36%), the 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 Kellan
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 Kellan and names like it
- Compare Kellan and KellenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKellan peaked in 2013.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kellan since 1910.
- Irish namesWiktionary’s origin for Kellan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Kellan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kellan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.