Meaning not yet researched.
Kellan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 215 in 2025. Its best rank was #364 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #364 in 2011; #1,031 in 2025. About 96% of babies named Kellan in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,031 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #364.
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Kellan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 215 boys in 2025. Peak: #364 in 2011 · most boys in one year: 843 (2013).
In 2025, 215 US boys were named Kellan, making it the 1,031st most common boys’ name of the year, down 110 places from #921 in 2024. That is 37 fewer than the 252 boys named Kellan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #364, reached in 2011. The most boys given the name in a single year was 843, in 2013. For comparison, it was #398 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kellan in 48 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1958 with 6 babies. In all, 11,269 US babies have been given the name, 4.6% of them girls and 95% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 6,868 babies named Kellan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,513 US boys were named Kellan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 601. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,945 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kellan ranked highest in Virginia in 2025, at #541 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kellen (18,307 babies since 1880), Killian (16,834 babies since 1880), Kylan (11,821 babies since 1880) and Keelan (3,942 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Keliann 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: Keliann (5).
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 Kellan 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 33 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 14 | #541 | #300 |
| Iowa | 6 | #543 | #268 |
| South Carolina | 8 | #581 | #558 |
| Utah | 7 | #591 | #436 |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | #644 | #322 |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #663 | #250 |
| Colorado | 7 | #721 | #402 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #740 | #355 |
| Missouri | 6 | #832 | #317 |
| North Carolina | 10 | #845 | #386 |
| Washington | 7 | #851 | #340 |
| California | 24 | #948 | #472 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #982 | #324 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,180 | #383 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,194 | #494 |
| Texas | 17 | #1,237 | #595 |
| Florida | 8 | #1,413 | #429 |
| New York | 7 | #1,495 | #359 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,425 | 215 | #1,031 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,375 | 252 | #921 |
| 2023 | — | — | 257 | #907 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,728 | 284 | #854 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,940 | 285 | #836 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,620 | 370 | #689 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,125 | 308 | #769 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,486 | 438 | #617 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,214 | 503 | #552 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,329 | 601 | #500 |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,232 | 776 | #398 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,485 | 809 | #385 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,072 | 843 | #368 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,296 | 813 | #373 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,246 | 819 | #364 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,880 | 807 | #366 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,941 | 400 | #624 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,747 | 161 | #1,134 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,957 | 228 | #883 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,721 | 128 | #1,298 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,795 | 134 | #1,194 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,032 | 127 | #1,204 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,873 | 101 | #1,352 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,668 | 85 | #1,491 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,449 | 73 | #1,623 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,994 | 61 | #1,793 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,009 | 57 | #1,770 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,327 | 56 | #1,804 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,051 | 44 | #2,043 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,929 | 43 | #2,033 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,283 | 40 | #2,071 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,024 | 45 | #1,878 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,589 | 43 | #1,918 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,936 | 55 | #1,609 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,286 | 42 | #1,878 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,580 | 46 | #1,744 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,369 | 51 | #1,582 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,770 | 36 | #1,867 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,261 | 51 | #1,434 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,593 | 65 | #1,180 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,829 | 47 | #1,440 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,060 | 33 | #1,748 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,426 | 43 | #1,457 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,116 | 41 | #1,529 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,558 | 21 | #2,380 |
| 1980 | — | — | 9 | #4,328 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,546 | — | — |
| 1958 | — | — | 6 | #3,736 |
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).