Meaning not yet researched.
Kelton: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 35 in 2025. Its best rank was #765 in 2002.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #765 in 2002; #3,350 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kelton in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,350 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2002, at #765.
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Kelton: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 35 boys in 2025. Peak: #765 in 2002 · most boys in one year: 226 (2002).
In 2025, 35 US boys were named Kelton, making it the 3,350th most common boys’ name of the year, down 917 places from #2,433 in 2024. That is 22 fewer than the 57 boys named Kelton in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #765, reached in 2002. That year also had the most boys given the name: 226. For comparison, it was #1,423 in 2015 and #1,782 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kelton in 109 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 7 babies. In all, 6,666 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,011 babies named Kelton.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 764 US boys were named Kelton; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 120. In 2025 that was about 1 in 48,802 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Kelten, Keltin and Keltyn 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kelten (103), Keltin (84), Keltyn (23), Keltan (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 Kelton 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 | — | — | 35 | #3,350 |
| 2024 | — | — | 57 | #2,433 |
| 2023 | — | — | 49 | #2,677 |
| 2022 | — | — | 48 | #2,738 |
| 2021 | — | — | 83 | #1,862 |
| 2020 | — | — | 78 | #1,905 |
| 2019 | — | — | 102 | #1,616 |
| 2018 | — | — | 87 | #1,770 |
| 2017 | — | — | 105 | #1,562 |
| 2016 | — | — | 120 | #1,449 |
| 2015 | — | — | 121 | #1,423 |
| 2014 | — | — | 155 | #1,194 |
| 2013 | — | — | 160 | #1,137 |
| 2012 | — | — | 196 | #1,010 |
| 2011 | — | — | 168 | #1,104 |
| 2010 | — | — | 159 | #1,160 |
| 2009 | — | — | 185 | #1,037 |
| 2008 | — | — | 218 | #934 |
| 2007 | — | — | 211 | #942 |
| 2006 | — | — | 182 | #1,012 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,864 | 183 | #956 |
| 2004 | — | — | 217 | #822 |
| 2003 | — | — | 203 | #853 |
| 2002 | — | — | 226 | #765 |
| 2001 | — | — | 195 | #836 |
| 2000 | — | — | 186 | #858 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,616 | 162 | #918 |
| 1998 | — | — | 172 | #850 |
| 1997 | — | — | 185 | #795 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,635 | 180 | #799 |
| 1995 | — | — | 163 | #844 |
| 1994 | — | — | 143 | #914 |
| 1993 | — | — | 140 | #911 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,353 | 116 | #1,012 |
| 1991 | — | — | 105 | #1,058 |
| 1990 | — | — | 102 | #1,050 |
| 1989 | — | — | 71 | #1,299 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,773 | 40 | #1,753 |
| 1987 | — | — | 45 | #1,580 |
| 1986 | — | — | 31 | #1,942 |
| 1985 | — | — | 31 | #1,893 |
| 1984 | — | — | 22 | #2,329 |
| 1983 | — | — | 25 | #2,119 |
| 1982 | — | — | 32 | #1,796 |
| 1981 | — | — | 31 | #1,835 |
| 1980 | — | — | 29 | #1,936 |
| 1979 | — | — | 42 | #1,450 |
| 1978 | — | — | 34 | #1,635 |
| 1977 | — | — | 32 | #1,689 |
| 1976 | — | — | 40 | #1,421 |
| 1975 | — | — | 30 | #1,684 |
| 1974 | — | — | 28 | #1,728 |
| 1973 | — | — | 27 | #1,721 |
| 1972 | — | — | 25 | #1,796 |
| 1971 | — | — | 31 | #1,579 |
| 1970 | — | — | 21 | #1,962 |
| 1969 | — | — | 21 | #1,838 |
| 1968 | — | — | 18 | #1,926 |
| 1967 | — | — | 31 | #1,379 |
| 1966 | — | — | 29 | #1,440 |
| 1965 | — | — | 30 | #1,420 |
| 1964 | — | — | 24 | #1,636 |
| 1963 | — | — | 27 | #1,528 |
| 1962 | — | — | 25 | #1,603 |
| 1961 | — | — | 27 | #1,562 |
| 1960 | — | — | 19 | #1,885 |
| 1959 | — | — | 15 | #2,161 |
| 1958 | — | — | 14 | #2,220 |
| 1957 | — | — | 17 | #1,991 |
| 1956 | — | — | 20 | #1,787 |
| 1955 | — | — | 16 | #2,006 |
| 1954 | — | — | 19 | #1,793 |
| 1953 | — | — | 20 | #1,744 |
| 1952 | — | — | 21 | #1,687 |
| 1951 | — | — | 12 | #2,307 |
| 1950 | — | — | 18 | #1,782 |
| 1949 | — | — | 9 | #2,708 |
| 1948 | — | — | 21 | #1,633 |
| 1947 | — | — | 15 | #2,029 |
| 1946 | — | — | 7 | #3,037 |
| 1945 | — | — | 10 | #2,323 |
| 1944 | — | — | 13 | #2,041 |
| 1943 | — | — | 20 | #1,611 |
| 1942 | — | — | 9 | #2,613 |
| 1941 | — | — | 13 | #2,049 |
| 1940 | — | — | 12 | #2,133 |
| 1939 | — | — | 19 | #1,556 |
| 1938 | — | — | 14 | #1,936 |
| 1937 | — | — | 14 | #1,954 |
| 1936 | — | — | 9 | #2,535 |
| 1935 | — | — | 12 | #2,192 |
| 1934 | — | — | 10 | #2,481 |
| 1932 | — | — | 7 | #3,234 |
| 1931 | — | — | 10 | #2,565 |
| 1930 | — | — | 9 | #2,892 |
| 1929 | — | — | 8 | #3,118 |
| 1928 | — | — | 9 | #2,955 |
| 1927 | — | — | 6 | #3,986 |
| 1926 | — | — | 6 | #3,964 |
| 1924 | — | — | 7 | #3,679 |
| 1923 | — | — | 7 | #3,655 |
| 1922 | — | — | 13 | #2,415 |
| 1921 | — | — | 7 | #3,709 |
| 1920 | — | — | 9 | #3,085 |
| 1919 | — | — | 7 | #3,582 |
| 1918 | — | — | 10 | #2,793 |
| 1917 | — | — | 9 | #2,850 |
| 1915 | — | — | 15 | #1,928 |
| 1914 | — | — | 7 | #2,793 |
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).