Kellin
#2,860 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kellin has been given to 1,279 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #2,860 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 110 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 93% boys, 7% girls all-time.
Babies named Kellin, 2025
1 in 75,300
Kellin 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Kellin over time
In 2025, Kellin went to 0% girls and 100% 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 Kellin?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 75,300
- 44 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 38,800
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #2,860
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 52,226 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kellin 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 52,226 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kellin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kellins were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kellin was born before 2015 — so the typical Kellin is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 51.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 84.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,185
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 51.0% of all recorded uses (604).
Is Kellin 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
- +122
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −373
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −936
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.58×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 40.0%
- Peak was 2014 (110)
- Years since peak
- 11
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.9% average annual change
Spellings of Kellin
Kellin is not the most common spelling — Kevin is, with 63.3% against Kellin's 0.06%.
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 Kellin is used
Across 2016–2025, Kellin was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 49,703 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Pennsylvania1 in 25,000
- 2Ohio1 in 33,333
- 3Oklahoma1 in 33,333
- 4Texas1 in 33,333
- 5Florida1 in 50,000
- 6Illinois1 in 50,000
- 7North Carolina1 in 50,000
- 8California1 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.
Kellin around the world
Where Kellin 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 & Wales2014–2024#4,271in 2024
- Canada2013–2022#2,602in 2022
- South Australia2007–2013#754in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Kellin by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Kellin
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kellin
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.