Kellon
Kellon was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,362 among boys’ names; 322 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kellon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kellon?
#11,362 among boys’ names, 2025
Kellon entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #11,362 in 2025.
16 babies in 2005, the peak
Kellon peaked in 2005, when 16 boys were given it, #5,161 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,362 | 3.5 |
| 2020 | 7 | #10,098 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,486 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 5 | #13,300 | 2.7 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,231 | 3.7 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,304 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,220 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 11 | #7,308 | 5.8 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,263 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,510 | 3.1 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 11 | #7,476 | 5.5 |
| 2008 | 15 | #5,930 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 15 | #5,797 | 7.2 |
| 2006 | 11 | #7,196 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 16 | #5,161 | 8.0 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,468 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,510 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 5 | #11,507 | 2.6 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,807 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 12 | #5,316 | 6.3 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,704 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,818 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 9 | #6,178 | 4.7 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,692 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,550 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 15 | #4,014 | 7.5 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,909 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,831 | 2.4 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,931 | 4.0 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,921 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 12 | #3,861 | 6.4 |
| 1986 | 12 | #3,764 | 6.5 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,080 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 13 | #3,371 | 7.2 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,212 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 10 | #4,100 | 5.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kellon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kellon has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kellon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kellon, and how old are they?
An estimated 313 Americans named Kellon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 17 and 34. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 376 people named Kellon (21 women and girls, 355 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 304 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% above 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
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 39,370 babies since 1880, Kellon is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 618 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
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 Kellon
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 Kellon and names like it
- Compare Kellon and KellenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKellon peaked in 2005.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Kellon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kellon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.