Meaning not yet researched.
Kaelin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,010 in 1995.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,010 in 1995; #11,312 in 2025. About 55% of babies named Kaelin in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,312 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1995, at #1,010.
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Kaelin: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,010 in 1995 · most boys in one year: 121 (1995).
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Kaelin, making it the 11,312th most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #1,010, reached in 1995. That year also had the most boys given the name: 121. For comparison, it was #9,148 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Kaelin, making it the 16,016th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #1,111, reached in 1995. The most girls given the name in a single year was 196, in 2005. For comparison, it was #4,105 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kaelin in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1981 with 13 babies. In all, 3,663 US babies have been given the name, 75% of them girls and 25% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,560 babies named Kaelin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 93 US boys were named Kaelin; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 16. In 2025 that was about 1 in 284,679 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 Kaylyn (12,091 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 Kaelin 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 | 5 | #16,016 | 6 | #11,312 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,257 | 7 | #10,219 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,812 | 8 | #9,408 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,242 | 13 | #6,498 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,378 | 9 | #8,382 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,885 | 13 | #6,595 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,563 | 16 | #5,657 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,116 | 11 | #7,319 |
| 2016 | 36 | #4,125 | 10 | #7,868 |
| 2015 | 36 | #4,105 | 8 | #9,148 |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,959 | 24 | #4,190 |
| 2013 | 51 | #3,202 | 7 | #10,186 |
| 2012 | 49 | #3,340 | 17 | #5,372 |
| 2011 | 57 | #3,001 | 15 | #5,813 |
| 2010 | 79 | #2,392 | 13 | #6,542 |
| 2009 | 118 | #1,826 | 12 | #7,026 |
| 2008 | 121 | #1,803 | 23 | #4,328 |
| 2007 | 153 | #1,513 | 30 | #3,558 |
| 2006 | 157 | #1,438 | 30 | #3,479 |
| 2005 | 196 | #1,177 | 27 | #3,572 |
| 2004 | 130 | #1,537 | 33 | #3,047 |
| 2003 | 142 | #1,402 | 28 | #3,323 |
| 2002 | 75 | #2,212 | 32 | #2,914 |
| 2001 | 109 | #1,666 | 27 | #3,275 |
| 2000 | 90 | #1,892 | 27 | #3,185 |
| 1999 | 81 | #1,945 | 36 | #2,494 |
| 1998 | 77 | #1,965 | 41 | #2,220 |
| 1997 | 120 | #1,403 | 44 | #2,041 |
| 1996 | 118 | #1,403 | 65 | #1,543 |
| 1995 | 160 | #1,111 | 121 | #1,010 |
| 1994 | 89 | #1,679 | 63 | #1,505 |
| 1993 | 38 | #3,074 | 12 | #4,856 |
| 1992 | 45 | #2,706 | 11 | #5,059 |
| 1991 | 33 | #3,329 | 23 | #2,872 |
| 1990 | 33 | #3,317 | 15 | #3,871 |
| 1989 | 39 | #2,836 | 15 | #3,723 |
| 1988 | 33 | #3,064 | 11 | #4,306 |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,462 | 9 | #4,751 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,252 | — | — |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,178 | 7 | #5,450 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,832 | 7 | #5,264 |
| 1983 | 14 | #4,986 | — | — |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,105 | — | — |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,399 | — | — |
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).