Kelson
Kelson was given to 29 boys in 2025, #3,811 among boys’ names; 1,404 Americans have been recorded with it since 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,370 Americans named Kelson and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 12 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kelson by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kelson?
#3,811 among boys’ names, 2025
Kelson fell from #3,121 in 2015 to #3,811 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 19.3 to 17.0 per million.
49 babies in 2009, the peak
Kelson peaked in 2009, when 49 boys were given it, #2,575 among boys’ names. The 29 births of 2025 are 59% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #3,811 | 17.0 |
| 2024 | 22 | #4,633 | 12.8 |
| 2023 | 34 | #3,450 | 19.9 |
| 2022 | 30 | #3,730 | 17.2 |
| 2021 | 30 | #3,694 | 17.1 |
| 2020 | 19 | #4,948 | 11.0 |
| 2019 | 33 | #3,458 | 18.4 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,076 | 20.9 |
| 2017 | 37 | #3,161 | 20.0 |
| 2016 | 30 | #3,647 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 37 | #3,121 | 19.3 |
| 2014 | 49 | #2,524 | 25.5 |
| 2013 | 48 | #2,548 | 25.4 |
| 2012 | 40 | #2,929 | 21.1 |
| 2011 | 42 | #2,830 | 22.1 |
| 2010 | 31 | #3,499 | 16.2 |
| 2009 | 49 | #2,575 | 24.7 |
| 2008 | 38 | #3,078 | 18.6 |
| 2007 | 41 | #2,895 | 19.8 |
| 2006 | 37 | #3,005 | 18.0 |
| 2005 | 48 | #2,409 | 24.0 |
| 2004 | 39 | #2,719 | 19.6 |
| 2003 | 41 | #2,531 | 20.8 |
| 2002 | 34 | #2,789 | 17.5 |
| 2001 | 34 | #2,763 | 17.5 |
| 2000 | 25 | #3,371 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 32 | #2,694 | 16.7 |
| 1998 | 31 | #2,680 | 16.2 |
| 1997 | 30 | #2,647 | 15.9 |
| 1996 | 36 | #2,273 | 19.0 |
| 1995 | 30 | #2,528 | 15.8 |
| 1994 | 26 | #2,815 | 13.5 |
| 1993 | 23 | #2,979 | 11.7 |
| 1992 | 30 | #2,434 | 15.0 |
| 1991 | 34 | #2,167 | 16.8 |
| 1990 | 38 | #1,992 | 18.5 |
| 1989 | 28 | #2,382 | 14.0 |
| 1988 | 30 | #2,110 | 15.7 |
| 1987 | 31 | #1,992 | 16.6 |
| 1986 | 14 | #3,351 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 10 | #4,073 | 5.5 |
| 1983 | 10 | #4,017 | 5.6 |
| 1982 | 16 | #2,910 | 8.8 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,328 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,730 | 3.5 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,358 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kelson a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kelson has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kelson: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kelson, and how old are they?
1,370 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,404 Americans ever recorded as Kelson. The median Kelson alive today is 20 years old; half are between 12 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 1,226 people named Kelson (26 women and girls, 1,200 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,223 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 14 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 340 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 583 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 433 |
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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,528 babies since 1880, Kelson is the most given (92% of them). In 2025 it was given to 29 of their 29 babies (100%), again the 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 Kelson
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 Kelson and names like it
- Compare Kelson and KelsenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKelson peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kelson since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Kelson.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kelson alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.