Kilan
Kilan was last recorded in 2024, when 8 babies were given it; 138 Americans have been recorded with it between 1996 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kilan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kilan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,466, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 2021, the peak
Kilan peaked in 2021, when 14 boys were given it, #6,192 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8 | #9,466 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,531 | 6.4 |
| 2022 | 8 | #9,460 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,192 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,357 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,263 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,921 | 6.5 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,522 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 6 | #11,472 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,248 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 7 | #10,247 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,629 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,552 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 5 | #13,571 | 2.5 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,853 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 7 | #9,203 | 3.5 |
| 1998 | 6 | #9,111 | 3.1 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,512 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kilan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kilan 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 Kilan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kilan, and how old are they?
An estimated 137 Americans named Kilan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 138 people named Kilan (21 women and girls, 117 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 96 born in the U.S. The Census count is 44% 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).
How common is the spelling Kilan?
Kilan is a less common spelling of Kylan: SSA has recorded 138 Kilan and 11,821 Kylan since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 45,565 babies since 1880, Kilan is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 2,421 babies recorded by SSA was a Kilan (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Kilan
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 Kilan and names like it
- Compare Kilan and KylanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKilan peaked in 2021.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Kilan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kilan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.