Kellin
Kellin was given to 44 boys in 2025, #2,860 among boys’ names; 1,279 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,260 Americans named Kellin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kellin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kellin?
#2,860 among boys’ names, 2025
Kellin fell from #1,924 in 2015 to #2,860 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 39.7 to 25.8 per million.
110 babies in 2014, the peak
Kellin peaked in 2014, when 110 boys were given it, #1,479 among boys’ names. The 44 births of 2025 are 40% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44 | #2,860 | 25.8 |
| 2024 | 42 | #2,982 | 24.4 |
| 2023 | 52 | #2,562 | 30.4 |
| 2022 | 51 | #2,635 | 29.2 |
| 2021 | 65 | #2,182 | 37.2 |
| 2020 | 52 | #2,487 | 30.1 |
| 2019 | 51 | #2,566 | 28.4 |
| 2018 | 65 | #2,155 | 35.8 |
| 2017 | 67 | #2,078 | 36.2 |
| 2016 | 91 | #1,712 | 48.0 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 76 | #1,924 | 39.7 |
| 2014 | 110 | #1,479 | 57.3 |
| 2013 | 74 | #1,907 | 39.1 |
| 2012 | 36 | #3,142 | 19.0 |
| 2011 | 15 | #5,826 | 7.9 |
| 2010 | 19 | #4,941 | 9.9 |
| 2009 | 14 | #6,281 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 15 | #5,929 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 12 | #6,875 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 11 | #6,883 | 5.5 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,285 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,247 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,944 | 3.6 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,714 | 5.1 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,586 | 5.1 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,806 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,878 | 5.3 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,358 | 5.8 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,694 | 4.2 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,680 | 5.2 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,578 | 5.1 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,405 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,236 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,843 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,388 | 4.5 |
| 1988 | 9 | #5,008 | 4.7 |
| 1987 | 14 | #3,431 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 27 | #2,131 | 14.7 |
| 1985 | 12 | #3,697 | 6.5 |
| 1984 | 10 | #4,072 | 5.5 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,323 | 5.0 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,324 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kellin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,279 Americans recorded as Kellin, 7% are girls and 93% boys. In 2025 it went to 44 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kellin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kellin, and how old are they?
1,260 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,279 Americans ever recorded as Kellin. The median Kellin alive today is 11 years old; half are between 7 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,052 people named Kellin (230 women and girls, 822 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 969 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 195 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 216 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 850 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 39,847 babies since 1880, Kellin is the sixth most given (3.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 44 of their 612 babies (7.2%), the fourth 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 Kellin
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 Kellin and names like it
- Compare Kellin and KellenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKellin peaked in 2014.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kellin since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Kellin.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kellin alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.