Kellen — #1029 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kellen

The Social Security Administration has registered 16,837 babies named Kellen between 1954 and 2024, spanning 71 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kellen currently holds the #1029 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2012, when 932 babies received it in a single year. Kellen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,260 additional births since 1961.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kellen performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 6,165 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Kellen shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,757 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Washington and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Kellen in 47 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kellen 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 16,837 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.