Meaning not yet researched.
Kaelan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 19 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,309 in 1998.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,309 in 1998; #5,117 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kaelan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,117 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1998, at #1,309.
Hover, tap or use the arrow keys for any year. Years with fewer than five babies of a sex are not published by SSA and show as zero.
Kaelan: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 19 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,309 in 1998 · most boys in one year: 91 (1998).
In 2025, 19 US boys were named Kaelan, making it the 5,117th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,377 places from #3,740 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 30 boys named Kaelan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,309, reached in 1998. That year also had the most boys given the name: 91. For comparison, it was #2,885 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Kaelan in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #3,385, reached in 2003. That year also had the most girls given the name: 43. For comparison, it was #8,201 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kaelan in 38 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1987 with 15 babies. In all, 1,951 US babies have been given the name, 22% of them girls and 78% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 792 babies named Kaelan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 212 US boys were named Kaelan; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 40. In 2025 that was about 1 in 89,899 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kaylin (19,934 babies since 1880), Kaelyn (15,648 babies since 1880), Kailyn (14,351 babies since 1880) and Callan (12,634 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Kaelan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 19 | #5,117 |
| 2024 | — | — | 30 | #3,740 |
| 2023 | — | — | 17 | #5,565 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,426 | 12 | #7,023 |
| 2021 | — | — | 16 | #5,663 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,232 | 15 | #5,831 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,625 | 22 | #4,555 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,812 | 17 | #5,421 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,163 | 40 | #2,979 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,569 | 24 | #4,255 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,201 | 41 | #2,885 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,467 | 22 | #4,460 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,605 | 36 | #3,094 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,765 | 33 | #3,333 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,651 | 33 | #3,335 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,699 | 47 | #2,605 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,240 | 57 | #2,309 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,562 | 47 | #2,655 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,564 | 50 | #2,518 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,306 | 54 | #2,334 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,574 | 59 | #2,097 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,931 | 54 | #2,177 |
| 2003 | 43 | #3,385 | 54 | #2,091 |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,825 | 69 | #1,701 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,936 | 67 | #1,726 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,077 | 80 | #1,512 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,651 | 81 | #1,442 |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,034 | 91 | #1,309 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,439 | 81 | #1,370 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,536 | 62 | #1,592 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,996 | 61 | #1,555 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,857 | 53 | #1,700 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,006 | 21 | #3,199 |
| 1992 | — | — | 23 | #2,954 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,159 | 11 | #4,934 |
| 1989 | — | — | 5 | #8,545 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,688 | 7 | #6,119 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,446 | 9 | #4,750 |
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).