Kaelan
#5,116 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kaelan has been given to 1,951 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #5,116 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 91 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 78% boys, 22% girls all-time.
Babies named Kaelan, 2025
1 in 174,000
Kaelan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Kaelan over time
In 2025, Kaelan went to 0% girls and 100% 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 Kaelan?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 174,000
- 19 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 89,900
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #5,116
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 120,943 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kaelan 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 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kaelan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kaelans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kaelan was born before 2003 — so the typical Kaelan is around 22 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 38.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 61.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,520
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 38.9% of all recorded uses (591).
Is Kaelan 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
- −1,378
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +711
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,232
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.46×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 20.9%
- Peak was 1998 (91)
- Years since peak
- 27
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.9% average annual change
Spellings of Kaelan
Kaelan is not the most common spelling — Alan is, with 50.5% against Kaelan's 0.21%.
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.
Where Kaelan is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Kaelan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 265,850 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Kaelan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Kaelan is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Kaelan was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,456,184 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Kaelan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kaelan around the world
Where Kaelan 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 & Wales1996–2025#1,538in 2025
- Scotland2005–2025#647in 2025
- Northern Ireland2016–2016#358in 2016
- Ireland2008–2025#829in 2025
- France2004–2025#1,149in 2025
- Canada1994–2024#2,328in 2024
- South Australia1997–2013#754in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Kaelan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Kaelan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kaelan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.