Kullen
#6,295 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kullen has been given to 790 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #6,295 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 64 recorded.
Babies named Kullen, 2025
1 in 237,000
Kullen 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kullen?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 237,000
- 14 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 122,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #6,295
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 164,137 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kullen 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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kullen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kullens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kullen was born before 2012 — so the typical Kullen is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 51.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 84.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 790
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 51.6% of all recorded uses (408).
Is Kullen 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
- −1,120
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,321
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −3,103
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.39×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 21.9%
- Peak was 2012 (64)
- Years since peak
- 13
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.7% average annual change
Spellings of Kullen
Kullen is not the most common spelling — Allen is, with 71.4% against Kullen's 0.21%.
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 Kullen is used
Across 1910–2025, Kullen was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 184,431 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Louisiana1 in 50,000
- 2Mississippi1 in —
- 3Texas1 in —
- 4Virginia1 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. Kullen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kullen around the world
Where Kullen 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 & Wales2024–2024#5,120in 2024
- Canada2009–2009#2,692in 2009
- South Australia2006–2006#657in 2006
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.
Kullen by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kullen
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kullen
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.