Meaning not yet researched.
Kellin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 44 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,479 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,479 in 2014; #2,861 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kellin in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,861 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #1,479.
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Kellin: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 44 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,479 in 2014 · most boys in one year: 110 (2014).
In 2025, 44 US boys were named Kellin, making it the 2,861st most common boys’ name of the year, up 122 places from #2,983 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 42 boys named Kellin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,479, reached in 2014. That year also had the most boys given the name: 110. For comparison, it was #1,924 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kellin in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1982 with 7 babies. In all, 1,279 US babies have been given the name, 7.3% of them girls and 93% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 620 babies named Kellin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 580 US boys were named Kellin; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 91. In 2025 that was about 1 in 38,820 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kellen (18,307 babies since 1880), Killian (16,834 babies since 1880), Kellan (11,269 babies since 1880) and Keelan (3,942 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 Kellin 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 | — | — | 44 | #2,861 |
| 2024 | — | — | 42 | #2,983 |
| 2023 | — | — | 52 | #2,563 |
| 2022 | — | — | 51 | #2,636 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,491 | 65 | #2,183 |
| 2020 | — | — | 52 | #2,488 |
| 2019 | — | — | 51 | #2,567 |
| 2018 | — | — | 65 | #2,156 |
| 2017 | — | — | 67 | #2,078 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,298 | 91 | #1,712 |
| 2015 | — | — | 76 | #1,924 |
| 2014 | — | — | 110 | #1,479 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,955 | 74 | #1,908 |
| 2012 | — | — | 36 | #3,144 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,214 | 15 | #5,831 |
| 2010 | — | — | 19 | #4,944 |
| 2009 | — | — | 14 | #6,285 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,041 | 15 | #5,934 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,705 | 12 | #6,879 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,749 | 11 | #6,889 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,475 | 10 | #7,291 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,808 | 8 | #8,254 |
| 2002 | — | — | 7 | #8,951 |
| 2001 | — | — | 10 | #6,721 |
| 2000 | — | — | 10 | #6,594 |
| 1999 | — | — | 5 | #10,814 |
| 1997 | — | — | 10 | #5,884 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,633 | 11 | #5,365 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,037 | 8 | #6,701 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,580 | 10 | #5,686 |
| 1993 | — | — | 10 | #5,584 |
| 1992 | — | — | 8 | #6,412 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,226 | 8 | #6,243 |
| 1990 | — | — | 11 | #4,850 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,538 | 9 | #5,395 |
| 1988 | — | — | 9 | #5,014 |
| 1987 | — | — | 14 | #3,436 |
| 1986 | — | — | 27 | #2,133 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,497 | 12 | #3,700 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,220 | 10 | #4,075 |
| 1983 | — | — | 9 | #4,325 |
| 1982 | — | — | 7 | #5,326 |
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).