Meaning not yet researched.
Kallen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 150 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,178 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,178 in 2014; #1,302 in 2025. About 95% of babies named Kallen in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,302 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #1,178.
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Kallen: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 150 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,178 in 2014 · most boys in one year: 159 (2014).
In 2025, 150 US boys were named Kallen, making it the 1,302nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 176 places from #1,478 in 2024. That is 27 more than the 123 boys named Kallen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,178, reached in 2014. That year also had the most boys given the name: 159. For comparison, it was #1,242 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Kallen, making it the 11,394th most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,163 places from #9,231 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 11 girls named Kallen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #6,323, reached in 1997. That year also had the most girls given the name: 15. For comparison, it was #9,790 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kallen in 45 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1963 with 6 babies. In all, 3,103 US babies have been given the name, 12% of them girls and 88% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,383 babies named Kallen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,351 US boys were named Kallen; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 150. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,387 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kallen ranked highest in Wisconsin in 2025, at #544 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).
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 Kallen 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 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin | 9 | #544 | #722 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #662 | #751 |
| Minnesota | 6 | #755 | — |
| Missouri | 5 | #927 | #895 |
| Washington | 6 | #948 | — |
| Ohio | 8 | #981 | #955 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #985 | — |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,085 | #1,135 |
| Texas | 15 | #1,323 | #1,328 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,549 | — |
| California | 8 | #1,918 | #2,422 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,394 | 150 | #1,302 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,231 | 123 | #1,478 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,260 | 138 | #1,363 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,457 | 141 | #1,334 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,322 | 149 | #1,277 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,673 | 145 | #1,268 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,101 | 124 | #1,416 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,833 | 113 | #1,516 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,533 | 130 | #1,369 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,582 | 138 | #1,311 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,790 | 147 | #1,242 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,475 | 159 | #1,178 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,869 | 112 | #1,471 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,208 | 122 | #1,381 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,050 | 136 | #1,268 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,926 | 117 | #1,419 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,183 | 80 | #1,845 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,172 | 48 | #2,609 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,454 | 56 | #2,322 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,304 | 46 | #2,604 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,505 | 29 | #3,423 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,282 | 32 | #3,114 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,012 | 24 | #3,681 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,637 | 33 | #2,849 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,958 | 21 | #3,910 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,001 | 30 | #2,953 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,123 | 28 | #2,984 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,911 | 15 | #4,526 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,323 | 21 | #3,400 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,829 | 16 | #4,099 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,376 | 13 | #4,657 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,460 | 12 | #4,958 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,338 | 10 | #5,567 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,076 | — | — |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,728 | 6 | #7,748 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,074 | 18 | #3,388 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,346 | 7 | #6,580 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,990 | 8 | #5,461 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,460 | 9 | #4,754 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,967 | 10 | #4,303 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,733 | 6 | #6,164 |
| 1984 | — | — | 7 | #5,268 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,008 | — | — |
| 1982 | — | — | 8 | #4,810 |
| 1963 | — | — | 6 | #3,834 |
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).