Faelan
#8,460 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Faelan has been given to 97 babies in the U.S. since 2012. In 2025 it ranked #8,460 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 10 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 80% boys, 20% girls all-time.
Babies named Faelan, 2025
1 in 368,000
Faelan over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Faelan over time
In 2025, Faelan went to 50% girls and 50% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Faelan?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 368,000
- 9 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 190,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #8,460
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,323 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Faelan sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Faelan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Faelans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Faelan was born before 2020 — so the typical Faelan is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 52.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 78
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 52.6% of all recorded uses (41).
Is Faelan rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +799
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +2,572
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −804
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.90×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 90.0%
- Peak was 2015 (10)
- Years since peak
- 10
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.1% average annual change
Spellings of Faelan
Faelan is not the most common spelling — Alan is, with 59.4% against Faelan's 0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Faelan around the world
Where Faelan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2009–2025#2,664in 2025
- Northern Ireland2024–2025#395in 2025
- Ireland2009–2025#509in 2025
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and Central Statistics Office. ONS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0.
Faelan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Faelan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Faelan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.