Kahlan
#9,756 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kahlan has been given to 1,569 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #9,756 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 155 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% girls, 5% boys all-time.
Babies named Kahlan, 2025
1 in 332,000
Kahlan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Kahlan over time
In 2025, Kahlan 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 Kahlan?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 332,000
- 10 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 161,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #9,756
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 229,791 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kahlan 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kahlan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kahlans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kahlan was born before 2011 — so the typical Kahlan is around 14 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 57.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 95.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,484
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 57.7% of all recorded uses (857).
Is Kahlan 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
- −3,243
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −5,065
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −7,310
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.13×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 6.5%
- Peak was 2010 (155)
- Years since peak
- 15
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.8% average annual change
Spellings of Kahlan
Kahlan is not the most common spelling — Kayla is, with 51.4% against Kahlan's 0.22%.
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 Kahlan is used
Across 1910–2025, Kahlan was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 247,178 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in 100,000
- 2Nevada1 in 100,000
- 3Texas1 in 100,000
- 4Utah1 in 100,000
- 5Virginia1 in 100,000
- 6Washington1 in 100,000
- 7Arizona1 in —
- 8California1 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. Kahlan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kahlan around the world
Where Kahlan 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 & Wales1997–2018#4,684in 2018
- Scotland2010–2012#815in 2012
- Ireland2010–2010#663in 2010
- France2011–2022#7,713in 2022
- Canada1999–2018#2,940in 2018
- South Australia2000–2013#536in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.
Kahlan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Kahlan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kahlan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.