Meaning not yet researched.
Kahlan: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,461 in 2010.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,461 in 2010; #9,759 in 2025. About 50% of babies named Kahlan in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,759 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2010, at #1,461.
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Kahlan: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,461 in 2010 · most girls in one year: 155 (2010).
In 2025, 10 US girls were named Kahlan, making it the 9,759th most common girls’ name of the year, down 3,243 places from #6,516 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 18 girls named Kahlan in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,461, reached in 2010. That year also had the most girls given the name: 155. For comparison, it was #2,446 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 10 US boys were named Kahlan, making it the 7,940th most common boys’ name of the year, up 2,442 places from #10,382 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 7 boys named Kahlan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #6,310, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 14. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kahlan in 30 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1995 with 5 babies. In all, 1,569 US babies have been given the name, 95% of them girls and 5.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 876 babies named Kahlan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 290 US girls were named Kahlan; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 59. In 2025 that was about 1 in 160,727 of the girls 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 Kahlan 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 | 10 | #9,759 | 10 | #7,940 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,516 | 7 | #10,382 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,282 | 9 | #8,569 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,567 | 14 | #6,310 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,055 | 9 | #8,501 |
| 2020 | 28 | #4,693 | 7 | #10,062 |
| 2019 | 33 | #4,299 | 9 | #8,518 |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,959 | 5 | #13,132 |
| 2017 | 59 | #2,854 | — | — |
| 2016 | 56 | #2,991 | — | — |
| 2015 | 75 | #2,446 | — | — |
| 2014 | 80 | #2,315 | — | — |
| 2013 | 95 | #2,041 | — | — |
| 2012 | 125 | #1,688 | — | — |
| 2011 | 142 | #1,549 | — | — |
| 2010 | 155 | #1,461 | 5 | #13,251 |
| 2009 | 105 | #1,985 | — | — |
| 2008 | 65 | #2,786 | — | — |
| 2007 | 52 | #3,270 | — | — |
| 2006 | 34 | #4,307 | — | — |
| 2005 | 44 | #3,434 | — | — |
| 2004 | 43 | #3,464 | — | — |
| 2003 | 47 | #3,156 | — | — |
| 2002 | 35 | #3,763 | — | — |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,758 | — | — |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,472 | — | — |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,529 | — | — |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,878 | — | — |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,479 | 5 | #10,017 |
| 1995 | — | — | 5 | #9,573 |
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).