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Kelan

#4,952 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Kellen

Kelan has been given to 1,810 babies in the U.S. since 1956. In 2025 it ranked #4,952 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 201 recorded.

Babies named Kelan, 2025

1 in 166,000

Kelan over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kelan: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Kellen

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kelan means

Kelan is a variant of Kellen.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Kelan → Kellen. The family’s proposed meaning is “swampy area”, recorded in the naming reference for Kellen.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kellen.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,810 boys were recorded with the name Kelan between 1956 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 201 in 2007; its best national rank was #978 in 2007.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,615 in 2020 to #4,952 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,702 in 2015 to #4,952 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.

How common is Kelan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 85,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,952
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kelan 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kelan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kelans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kelan was born before 2007 — so the typical Kelan is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
38.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,810
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 38.4% of all recorded uses (695).

Is Kelan 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
+599
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,337
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,250
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.44×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.0%
Peak was 2007 (201)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#978
2007

Spellings of Kelan

Kelan is not the most common spelling — Kevin is, with 30.4% against Kelan's 0.05%.

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 Kelan is used

Across 1910–2025, Kelan was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 334,617 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 100,000
  2. 2Georgia1 in 100,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 100,000
  4. 4Alabama1 in —
  5. 5California1 in —
  6. 6Colorado1 in —
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8Kentucky1 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. Kelan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kelan around the world

Where Kelan 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
    1996–2020
    #3,848
    in 2020
  • Scotland
    1997–2004
    #490
    in 2004
  • Northern Ireland
    1999–2012
    #403
    in 2012
  • Ireland
    1982–2016
    #713
    in 2016
  • France
    1999–2025
    #2,919
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2006–2021
    #2,989
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    2002–2002
    #606
    in 2002

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.

Kelan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,952
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,337
Best rank ever
#978
2007
Peak year
2007
201 that year
First recorded
1956
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,810
Count in 2025
20

Names similar to Kelan

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

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Sibling names for Kelan

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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