Boys' name · since 1989
Kielan
Kielan has 110 recorded births since 1989 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2007 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 110
- total births
- 1989–2021
- years on record
- 2010s
- peak decade
- 34%
- born in that decade
110 boys have been named Kielan since 1989, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Kielan has 110 recorded births among boys since 1989, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1989 to 2021.
- 110 total births
- 1989–2021 years on record
- 2010s peak decade
- 34% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Kielan's 110 recorded births place it above 63% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Kielan's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Kielan's SSA record in two at 2009 and the more recent half accounts for 48% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 52%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1994, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2007 peak of 11, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Kielan popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1989–2021
- Peak year (2007)
- 11
- Annual births at peak, across 33 years of records
Kielan by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
2010s was Kielan's strongest decade.
37 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 34% of all-time use.
Kielan births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s 6
1980s
6 births
- 1990s
1990s
21 births
- 2000s
2000s
35 births
- 2010s
2010s
37 births
- 2020s 11
2020s
11 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 37 births (34% of all-time use).
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- Kielan's decade-level peak was the 2010s (37 total births); usage has since declined to 11 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1989–2021 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Kielan: Baby Name Since 1989 - 110 Births, Peak 2007." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/kielan. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Kielan draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.