Kelson
#3,811 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kelson has been given to 1,404 babies in the U.S. since 1962. In 2025 it ranked #3,811 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 49 recorded.
Babies named Kelson, 2025
1 in 114,000
Kelson 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kelson?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 114,000
- 29 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 58,900
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #3,811
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 79,239 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kelson 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 79,239 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kelson. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kelsons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kelson was born before 2006 — so the typical Kelson is around 19 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 27.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 64.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,404
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 27.5% of all recorded uses (386).
Is Kelson 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
- +822
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,137
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −690
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.78×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 59.2%
- Peak was 2009 (49)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.6% average annual change
Spellings of Kelson
Kelson is not the most common spelling — Nelson is, with 14.8% against Kelson's 0.26%.
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 Kelson is used
Across 1910–2025, Kelson was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 425,732 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Hawaii1 in 25,000
- 2Utah1 in 100,000
- 3California1 in —
- 4Georgia1 in —
- 5Texas1 in —
- 6Washington1 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. Kelson has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kelson around the world
Where Kelson 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 & Wales1997–2021#3,990in 2021
- France2008–2023#6,131in 2023
- Canada1991–2016#2,748in 2016
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Kelson by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kelson
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kelson
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.