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Kalyan

#10,182 in 2025Boys' name

Welfare, prosperity

Kalyan has been given to 190 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #10,182 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Kalyan, 2025

1 in 474,000

Kalyan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kalyan: meaning, origin, and history

Welfare, prosperity

Sanskrit

What Kalyan means

Kalyan means “welfare, prosperity”, associated with kalyāṇa.

Origin, language, and formation

Kalyan is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 190 boys were recorded with the name Kalyan between 2001 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2010; its best national rank was #6,203 in 2010.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,057 in 2020 to #10,182 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,372 in 2015 to #10,182 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Kalyan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,182
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kalyan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kalyan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kalyans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kalyan was born before 2013 — so the typical Kalyan is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
190
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Choose a decade

2010s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (95).

Is Kalyan 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
−2,683
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,875
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,810
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.78×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2010 (14)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,203
2010

Spellings of Kalyan

Kalyan is not the most common spelling — Alan is, with 59.8% against Kalyan's 0.03%.

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 Kalyan is used

Across 1910–2025, Kalyan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,905,450 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Kalyan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kalyan around the world

Where Kalyan 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 & Wales
    2002–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    2003–2024
    #3,552
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2024–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2007–2007
    #680
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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.

Kalyan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,182
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,875
Best rank ever
#6,203
2010
Peak year
2010
14 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
190
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Kalyan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Kalyan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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