Meaning not yet researched.
Caelan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 43 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,068 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,068 in 2001; #2,892 in 2025. About 88% of babies named Caelan in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,892 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #1,068.
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Caelan: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 43 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,068 in 2001 · most boys in one year: 135 (2001).
In 2025, 43 US boys were named Caelan, making it the 2,892nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 450 places from #3,342 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 35 boys named Caelan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,068, reached in 2001. That year also had the most boys given the name: 135. For comparison, it was #2,413 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 6 US girls were named Caelan, making it the 13,508th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #2,264, reached in 2003. That year also had the most girls given the name: 75. For comparison, it was #14,843 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Caelan in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1990 with 5 babies. In all, 3,135 US babies have been given the name, 21% of them girls and 79% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,346 babies named Caelan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 549 US boys were named Caelan; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 70. In 2025 that was about 1 in 39,723 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Caelan ranked highest in California in 2025, at #2,245 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kaelyn (15,648 babies since 1880), Callan (12,634 babies since 1880), Callen (10,105 babies since 1880) and Cailyn (5,554 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Caelainn are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Caelainn (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Caelan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 6 | #2,245 | #2,318 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,508 | 43 | #2,892 |
| 2024 | — | — | 35 | #3,342 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,369 | 61 | #2,293 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,738 | 70 | #2,120 |
| 2021 | — | — | 56 | #2,416 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,558 | 47 | #2,664 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,563 | 68 | #2,112 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,710 | 56 | #2,356 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,523 | 61 | #2,193 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,991 | 52 | #2,440 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,843 | 53 | #2,413 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,731 | 62 | #2,177 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,219 | 67 | #2,026 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,202 | 61 | #2,174 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,768 | 89 | #1,677 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,699 | 94 | #1,656 |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,120 | 93 | #1,689 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,603 | 121 | #1,400 |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,393 | 67 | #2,053 |
| 2006 | 53 | #3,140 | 72 | #1,880 |
| 2005 | 30 | #4,503 | 53 | #2,244 |
| 2004 | 59 | #2,752 | 97 | #1,442 |
| 2003 | 75 | #2,264 | 76 | #1,647 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,897 | 119 | #1,177 |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,426 | 135 | #1,068 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,009 | 101 | #1,283 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,237 | 105 | #1,212 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,166 | 104 | #1,191 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,038 | 110 | #1,134 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,202 | 69 | #1,466 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,683 | 69 | #1,434 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,176 | 43 | #1,930 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,777 | 26 | #2,714 |
| 1992 | — | — | 35 | #2,180 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,709 | — | — |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,260 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).