Kellian

UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Kellian has been given to 50 babies in the U.S. since 2016. 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 2021, with 11 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 70% boys, 30% girls all-time.

Babies named Kellian, 2024

1 in 478,000

Kellian over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Kellian over time

In 2024, Kellian went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19772024

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 Kellian?

Kellian had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 246,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kellian 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 2024 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kellian. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kellians were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kellian was born before 2021 — so the typical Kellian is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
65.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
35
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2020s — 65.7% of all recorded uses (23).

Is Kellian 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
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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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2021 (11)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,370
2021

Spellings of Kellian

Kellian is not the most common spelling — Kelvin is, with 36.1% against Kellian's 0.02%.

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.

Kellian around the world

Where Kellian 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.

  • France
    1992–2025
    #5,841
    in 2025

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Kellian by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#7,370
2021
Peak year
2021
11 that year
First recorded
2016
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
35
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#7,183
1977
Peak year
1977
8 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
1988
All-time count
15
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kellian

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

Sibling names for Kellian

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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