Kelden
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kelden has been given to 227 babies in the U.S. since 1990. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2010, with 21 recorded.
Babies named Kelden, 2022
1 in 677,000
Kelden 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Kelden?
Kelden had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2022
- 1 in 677,000
- 5 of 3,385,755 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 349,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2022
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 469,366 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kelden sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kelden. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Keldens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kelden was born before 2009 — so the typical Kelden is around 16 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 43.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 93.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 227
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 43.6% of all recorded uses (99).
Is Kelden 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2010 (21)
- Years since peak
- 15
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 44.2% average annual change
Spellings of Kelden
Kelden is not the most common spelling — Kayden is, with 15.2% against Kelden'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.
Kelden by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kelden
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kelden
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.