Kallan
#1,912 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kallan has been given to 1,206 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #1,912 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 82 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 68% boys, 32% girls all-time.
Babies named Kallan, 2025
1 in 40,400
Kallan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Kallan over time
In 2025, Kallan went to 10% girls and 90% 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 Kallan?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 40,400
- 82 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 20,800
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,912
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 28,024 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kallan 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 28,024 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kallan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kallans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kallan was born before 2018 — so the typical Kallan is around 7 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 43.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 94.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 824
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 43.2% of all recorded uses (356).
Is Kallan 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
- +475
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +908
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,204
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.22×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (82)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 41.6% average annual change
Spellings of Kallan
Kallan is not the most common spelling — Alan is, with 35.2% against Kallan's 0.08%.
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 Kallan is used
Across 1910–2025, Kallan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 756,334 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (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. Kallan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kallan around the world
Where Kallan 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 & Wales1996–2022#4,790in 2022
- Scotland2005–2020#711in 2020
- Ireland2012–2012#616in 2012
- Canada2011–2024#2,855in 2024
- South Australia1953–2012#771in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, 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. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Kallan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Kallan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kallan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.