Kallen
#1,302 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kallen has been given to 3,103 babies in the U.S. since 1963. In 2025 it ranked #1,302 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 159 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 88% boys, 12% girls all-time.
Babies named Kallen, 2025
1 in 22,100
Kallen 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Kallen over time
In 2025, Kallen went to 5% girls and 95% 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 Kallen?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 22,100
- 150 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 11,400
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,302
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 15,320 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kallen 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 15,320 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kallen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kallens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kallen was born before 2015 — so the typical Kallen is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 47.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 91.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,743
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 47.3% of all recorded uses (1,298).
Is Kallen 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
- +176
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −34
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −60
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.02×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 94.3%
- Peak was 2014 (159)
- Years since peak
- 11
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 19.3% average annual change
Spellings of Kallen
Kallen is not the most common spelling — Allen is, with 26.4% against Kallen's 0.27%.
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 Kallen is used — boys
Across 2016–2025, Kallen was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in 5,882 boys, against 1 in 16,369 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).
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.
Where Kallen is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Kallen was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,456,184 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
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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. Kallen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kallen around the world
Where Kallen 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 & Wales1997–2025#5,137in 2025
- Scotland2023–2023#533in 2023
- France2012–2024#4,955in 2024
- Canada1998–2024#2,134in 2024
- South Australia1981–2013#754in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Kallen by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Kallen
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Kallen
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kallen, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Kallen
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.