Meaning not yet researched.
Kallan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 82 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,912 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 90% of babies named Kallan in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,912 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Kallan: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 82 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,912 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 82 (2025).
In 2025, 82 US boys were named Kallan, making it the 1,912th most common boys’ name of the year, up 475 places from #2,387 in 2024. That is 23 more than the 59 boys named Kallan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,912, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 82. For comparison, it was #3,117 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 9 US girls were named Kallan, making it the 10,488th most common girls’ name of the year, up 178 places from #10,666 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 9 girls named Kallan in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #5,310, reached in 1995. The most girls given the name in a single year was 20, in 1999. For comparison, it was #15,408 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kallan in 40 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1985 with 5 babies. In all, 1,206 US babies have been given the name, 32% of them girls and 68% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 434 babies named Kallan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 504 US boys were named Kallan; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 82. In 2025 that was about 1 in 20,830 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kallan ranked highest in Oklahoma in 2025, at #753 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. 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). Rarer spellings such as Kalliyan and Kalliann are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Kalliyan (39), Kalliann (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 Kallan 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 5 | #753 | — |
| Missouri | 6 | #829 | — |
| Texas | 8 | #1,994 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,488 | 82 | #1,912 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,666 | 59 | #2,387 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,719 | 47 | #2,755 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,820 | 76 | #2,011 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,617 | 49 | #2,636 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,592 | 43 | #2,821 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,525 | 35 | #3,301 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,177 | 47 | #2,651 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,179 | 39 | #3,039 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,581 | 27 | #3,931 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,408 | 37 | #3,117 |
| 2014 | — | — | 44 | #2,733 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,905 | 32 | #3,374 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,724 | 34 | #3,272 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,027 | 26 | #3,948 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,353 | 23 | #4,303 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,417 | 11 | #7,463 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,934 | 15 | #5,928 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,213 | 17 | #5,322 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,967 | 5 | #13,015 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,416 | 7 | #9,629 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,281 | 8 | #8,533 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,838 | 12 | #6,060 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,535 | — | — |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,456 | — | — |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,855 | 7 | #8,670 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,326 | 6 | #9,299 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,881 | 6 | #9,054 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,738 | — | — |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,152 | 6 | #8,456 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,310 | 5 | #9,584 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,860 | — | — |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,083 | — | — |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,462 | — | — |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,200 | — | — |
| 1990 | — | — | 9 | #5,595 |
| 1989 | — | — | 5 | #8,556 |
| 1988 | — | — | 5 | #7,898 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,966 | — | — |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,440 | — | — |
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).