Meaning not yet researched.
Kalan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 26 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,858 in 1990.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,858 in 1990; #4,087 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kalan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,087 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1990, at #1,858.
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Kalan: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 26 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,858 in 1990 · most boys in one year: 45 (1993).
In 2025, 26 US boys were named Kalan, making it the 4,087th most common boys’ name of the year, up 413 places from #4,500 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 23 boys named Kalan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,858, reached in 1990. The most boys given the name in a single year was 45, in 1993. For comparison, it was #4,131 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Kalan in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #5,087, reached in 1993. That year also had the most girls given the name: 19. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kalan in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1974 with 6 babies. In all, 1,588 US babies have been given the name, 15% of them girls and 85% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 484 babies named Kalan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 269 US boys were named Kalan; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 40. In 2025 that was about 1 in 65,695 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Callan (12,634 babies since 1880), Kaylin (19,934 babies since 1880), Kaelyn (15,648 babies since 1880) and Kailyn (14,351 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 Kalan 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 | — | — | 26 | #4,087 |
| 2024 | — | — | 23 | #4,500 |
| 2023 | — | — | 25 | #4,278 |
| 2022 | — | — | 26 | #4,141 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,400 | 23 | #4,436 |
| 2020 | — | — | 31 | #3,531 |
| 2019 | — | — | 24 | #4,279 |
| 2018 | — | — | 40 | #2,971 |
| 2017 | — | — | 27 | #3,928 |
| 2016 | — | — | 24 | #4,257 |
| 2015 | — | — | 25 | #4,131 |
| 2014 | — | — | 36 | #3,130 |
| 2013 | — | — | 30 | #3,540 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,150 | 30 | #3,588 |
| 2011 | — | — | 39 | #2,973 |
| 2010 | — | — | 34 | #3,275 |
| 2009 | — | — | 27 | #3,874 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,915 | 40 | #2,981 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,471 | 44 | #2,740 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,534 | 27 | #3,730 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,341 | 22 | #4,131 |
| 2004 | — | — | 19 | #4,510 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,743 | 22 | #3,905 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,136 | 24 | #3,619 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,697 | 35 | #2,716 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,786 | 21 | #3,851 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,965 | 34 | #2,589 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,257 | 40 | #2,254 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,398 | 42 | #2,115 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,463 | 41 | #2,092 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,003 | 41 | #2,044 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,987 | 29 | #2,589 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,087 | 45 | #1,860 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,459 | 32 | #2,333 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,258 | 28 | #2,501 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,668 | 42 | #1,858 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,324 | 40 | #1,879 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,999 | 31 | #2,066 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,233 | 25 | #2,304 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,824 | 17 | #2,948 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,435 | 27 | #2,098 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,572 | 16 | #2,885 |
| 1983 | — | — | 13 | #3,324 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,139 | 12 | #3,587 |
| 1981 | — | — | 15 | #2,964 |
| 1980 | — | — | 6 | #5,898 |
| 1979 | — | — | 8 | #4,626 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,484 |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #5,124 |
| 1974 | — | — | 6 | #4,937 |
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).