Kelven
Kelven was last recorded in 2011, when 5 babies were given it; 113 Americans have been recorded with it between 1957 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kelven by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kelven?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,386, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1961, the peak
Kelven peaked in 1961, when 12 boys were given it, #2,479 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | #13,386 | 2.6 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,448 | 3.9 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,693 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 5 | #11,871 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 6 | #10,073 | 3.1 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,801 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,619 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,551 | 4.1 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,644 | 2.9 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,288 | 3.8 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 5 | #5,914 | 3.2 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,673 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,437 | 2.9 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,265 | 2.9 |
| 1965 | 8 | #3,115 | 4.3 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,338 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 12 | #2,479 | 5.6 |
| 1957 | 7 | #3,410 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kelven a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kelven has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 18 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kelven: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kelven, and how old are they?
An estimated 101 Americans named Kelven and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 24 and 59. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 214 people named Kelven (0 women and girls, 214 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 104 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 times 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
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.