Meaning not yet researched.
Kellen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 202 in 2025. Its best rank was #337 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #337 in 2012; #1,069 in 2025. About 98% of babies named Kellen in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,069 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #337.
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Kellen: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 202 boys in 2025. Peak: #337 in 2012 · most boys in one year: 932 (2012).
In 2025, 202 US boys were named Kellen, making it the 1,069th most common boys’ name of the year, down 35 places from #1,034 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 216 boys named Kellen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #337, reached in 2012. That year also had the most boys given the name: 932. For comparison, it was #507 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kellen in 65 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1954 with 5 babies. In all, 18,307 US babies have been given the name, 6.9% of them girls and 93% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 6,343 babies named Kellen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,045 US boys were named Kellen; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 440. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,456 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kellen ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #536 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kellan (11,269 babies since 1880), Keller (4,172 babies since 1880), Kylen (5,424 babies since 1880) and Keelan (3,942 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Keylan, Kyleen and Kelin 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: Keylan (1,073), Kyleen (1,056), Kelin (799), Kelyn (764), Kelleen (653), Keylen (609), Keylon (478), Kellene (425), Kealan (346), Kelon (324), Kellon (322), Keilen (286), and more.
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 Kellen 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 32 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 9 | #536 | #426 |
| Oregon | 6 | #565 | #235 |
| Washington | 12 | #591 | #271 |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | #690 | #480 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #755 | #550 |
| Minnesota | 6 | #759 | #286 |
| Illinois | 11 | #777 | #490 |
| Indiana | 7 | #811 | #444 |
| Missouri | 6 | #833 | #383 |
| Virginia | 8 | #840 | #647 |
| Maryland | 5 | #865 | #513 |
| Michigan | 8 | #875 | #372 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,110 | #511 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,181 | #359 |
| Texas | 15 | #1,325 | #805 |
| California | 14 | #1,337 | #693 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,379 | #683 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,448 | #879 |
| Florida | 5 | #1,974 | #637 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,130 | 202 | #1,069 |
| 2024 | — | — | 216 | #1,034 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,967 | 251 | #920 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,844 | 299 | #831 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,727 | 271 | #863 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,193 | 291 | #799 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,422 | 308 | #770 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,897 | 347 | #699 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,353 | 420 | #623 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,429 | 440 | #611 |
| 2015 | 25 | #5,379 | 569 | #507 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,263 | 672 | #444 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,592 | 759 | #394 |
| 2012 | 22 | #6,010 | 932 | #337 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,842 | 880 | #344 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,327 | 840 | #359 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,801 | 653 | #431 |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,038 | 628 | #447 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,695 | 519 | #511 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,246 | 487 | #525 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,137 | 471 | #521 |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,866 | 475 | #513 |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,358 | 387 | #574 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,540 | 270 | #680 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,140 | 242 | #724 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,234 | 266 | #671 |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,522 | 223 | #732 |
| 1998 | 29 | #3,974 | 192 | #799 |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,182 | 190 | #780 |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,186 | 207 | #740 |
| 1995 | 39 | #2,999 | 227 | #704 |
| 1994 | 44 | #2,773 | 164 | #832 |
| 1993 | 42 | #2,857 | 184 | #779 |
| 1992 | 41 | #2,896 | 171 | #799 |
| 1991 | 39 | #2,958 | 189 | #743 |
| 1990 | 27 | #3,847 | 234 | #659 |
| 1989 | 40 | #2,786 | 229 | #662 |
| 1988 | 57 | #2,063 | 290 | #536 |
| 1987 | 54 | #2,052 | 294 | #523 |
| 1986 | 51 | #2,091 | 318 | #493 |
| 1985 | 40 | #2,460 | 355 | #454 |
| 1984 | 25 | #3,370 | 342 | #453 |
| 1983 | 33 | #2,699 | 383 | #419 |
| 1982 | 40 | #2,427 | 408 | #412 |
| 1981 | 31 | #2,886 | 191 | #617 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,064 | 44 | #1,439 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,958 | 11 | #3,700 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #6,311 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #6,361 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,521 | 5 | #5,914 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,687 | — | — |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,547 | — | — |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,724 | — | — |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,155 | 7 | #3,384 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,066 | 5 | #4,200 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,390 | 7 | #3,497 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,701 | 7 | #3,475 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,703 | 7 | #3,519 |
| 1960 | — | — | 10 | #2,778 |
| 1959 | — | — | 9 | #2,940 |
| 1958 | — | — | 8 | #3,159 |
| 1957 | — | — | 11 | #2,565 |
| 1956 | — | — | 5 | #4,211 |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #4,136 |
| 1954 | — | — | 5 | #4,105 |
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).