Meaning not yet researched.
Kelan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 20 in 2025. Its best rank was #978 in 2007.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #978 in 2007; #4,953 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kelan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,953 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2007, at #978.
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Kelan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 20 boys in 2025. Peak: #978 in 2007 · most boys in one year: 201 (2007).
In 2025, 20 US boys were named Kelan, making it the 4,953rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 602 places from #5,555 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 17 boys named Kelan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #978, reached in 2007. That year also had the most boys given the name: 201. For comparison, it was #2,703 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kelan in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1956 with 8 babies. In all, 1,810 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 695 babies named Kelan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 264 US boys were named Kelan; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 39. In 2025 that was about 1 in 85,404 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kellen (18,307 babies since 1880), Kylan (11,821 babies since 1880), Kellan (11,269 babies since 1880) and Kylen (5,424 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kelaine are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kelaine (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 Kelan 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 | — | — | 20 | #4,953 |
| 2024 | — | — | 17 | #5,555 |
| 2023 | — | — | 25 | #4,285 |
| 2022 | — | — | 19 | #5,126 |
| 2021 | — | — | 20 | #4,860 |
| 2020 | — | — | 30 | #3,618 |
| 2019 | — | — | 29 | #3,763 |
| 2018 | — | — | 39 | #3,025 |
| 2017 | — | — | 33 | #3,418 |
| 2016 | — | — | 32 | #3,481 |
| 2015 | — | — | 45 | #2,703 |
| 2014 | — | — | 47 | #2,602 |
| 2013 | — | — | 48 | #2,549 |
| 2012 | — | — | 61 | #2,180 |
| 2011 | — | — | 58 | #2,253 |
| 2010 | — | — | 67 | #2,049 |
| 2009 | — | — | 73 | #1,948 |
| 2008 | — | — | 92 | #1,672 |
| 2007 | — | — | 201 | #978 |
| 2006 | — | — | 115 | #1,389 |
| 2005 | — | — | 33 | #3,131 |
| 2004 | — | — | 28 | #3,414 |
| 2003 | — | — | 35 | #2,820 |
| 2002 | — | — | 29 | #3,145 |
| 2001 | — | — | 45 | #2,264 |
| 2000 | — | — | 44 | #2,238 |
| 1999 | — | — | 37 | #2,437 |
| 1998 | — | — | 29 | #2,826 |
| 1997 | — | — | 34 | #2,425 |
| 1996 | — | — | 30 | #2,569 |
| 1995 | — | — | 31 | #2,471 |
| 1994 | — | — | 25 | #2,902 |
| 1993 | — | — | 26 | #2,751 |
| 1992 | — | — | 27 | #2,641 |
| 1991 | — | — | 23 | #2,875 |
| 1990 | — | — | 25 | #2,663 |
| 1989 | — | — | 22 | #2,848 |
| 1988 | — | — | 18 | #3,030 |
| 1987 | — | — | 10 | #4,423 |
| 1986 | — | — | 19 | #2,734 |
| 1985 | — | — | 11 | #3,925 |
| 1984 | — | — | 17 | #2,757 |
| 1983 | — | — | 11 | #3,757 |
| 1982 | — | — | 18 | #2,647 |
| 1981 | — | — | 12 | #3,516 |
| 1980 | — | — | 9 | #4,326 |
| 1979 | — | — | 12 | #3,458 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,500 |
| 1976 | — | — | 9 | #3,866 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #5,913 |
| 1974 | — | — | 11 | #3,231 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,488 |
| 1967 | — | — | 9 | #2,875 |
| 1965 | — | — | 7 | #3,407 |
| 1963 | — | — | 5 | #4,348 |
| 1961 | — | — | 8 | #3,233 |
| 1959 | — | — | 6 | #3,809 |
| 1956 | — | — | 8 | #3,086 |
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).