Kullen
Kullen was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,295 among boys’ names; 790 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kullen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kullen?
#6,295 among boys’ names, 2025
Kullen fell from #3,192 in 2015 to #6,295 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 18.8 to 8.2 per million.
64 babies in 2012, the peak
Kullen peaked in 2012, when 64 boys were given it, #2,118 among boys’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #6,295 | 8.2 |
| 2024 | 19 | #5,175 | 11.0 |
| 2023 | 18 | #5,370 | 10.5 |
| 2022 | 16 | #5,766 | 9.2 |
| 2021 | 27 | #3,956 | 15.4 |
| 2020 | 26 | #3,974 | 15.1 |
| 2019 | 27 | #3,957 | 15.0 |
| 2018 | 27 | #3,946 | 14.9 |
| 2017 | 32 | #3,486 | 17.3 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,039 | 20.6 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #3,192 | 18.8 |
| 2014 | 45 | #2,685 | 23.4 |
| 2013 | 33 | #3,307 | 17.4 |
| 2012 | 64 | #2,118 | 33.7 |
| 2011 | 51 | #2,461 | 26.9 |
| 2010 | 54 | #2,365 | 28.1 |
| 2009 | 34 | #3,302 | 17.1 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,655 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 15 | #5,803 | 7.2 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,436 | 4.4 |
| 2005 | 11 | #6,899 | 5.5 |
| 2004 | 15 | #5,386 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 19 | #4,351 | 9.6 |
| 2002 | 8 | #8,111 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,739 | 5.1 |
| 2000 | 17 | #4,487 | 8.7 |
| 1999 | 23 | #3,440 | 12.0 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,672 | 5.8 |
| 1997 | 13 | #4,827 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 16 | #4,108 | 8.4 |
| 1995 | 13 | #4,671 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,283 | 5.7 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,244 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,431 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,813 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kullen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kullen has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kullen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kullen, and how old are they?
An estimated 780 Americans named Kullen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 9 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 637 people named Kullen (11 women and girls, 626 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 670 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
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 Kullen?
Kullen is a less common spelling of Cullen: SSA has recorded 790 Kullen and 16,703 Cullen since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 18,225 babies since 1880, Kullen is the second most given (4.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 214 babies (6.5%), again the second 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 Kullen
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 Kullen and names like it
- Compare Kullen and CullenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKullen peaked in 2012.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kullen since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Kullen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kullen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.