girls:
67 births since 1998
#5649 (1st percentile)
boys:
524 births since 1993
#4062 (11th percentile)
overall:
591 births since 1993
#7148 (8th percentile)
The name Caelen is the #7,148 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 591 recorded births since 1993. This represents the 7.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,062 (11.4% percentile) for all time with 524 births since 1993. For girls, it ranks #5,649 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 67 births since 1998.
Caelen first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1993 (1993 for boys and 1998 for girls). Birth data for Caelen is available in 29 out of the 31 years between 1993 and 2023 (29 years for boys and 10 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Caelen has been given predominantly to boys, with 88.7% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Caelen were boys.
For boys, Caelen reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 3.8% percentile (ranked #867) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 18 births per million (ranked 3.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2012, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Caelen ranks #898 for boys (1.4% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 53.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Caelen reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #900) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Caelen".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Caelen is pronounced as KAY-luhn, which has 2 syllables.
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