girls:
242 births since 1982
#5474 (4th percentile)
boys:
1.3k births since 1974
#3318 (28th percentile)
overall:
1.5k births since 1974
#6207 (20th percentile)
The name Kalan is the #6,207 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,539 recorded births since 1974. This represents the 19.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 19.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,318 (27.6% percentile) for all time with 1,297 births since 1974. For girls, it ranks #5,474 (4.2% percentile) for all time with 242 births since 1982.
Kalan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1974 (1974 for boys and 1982 for girls). Birth data for Kalan is available in 48 out of the 50 years between 1974 and 2023 (48 years for boys and 27 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 Kalan has been given predominantly to boys, with 84.3% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Kalan were boys.
For boys, Kalan reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 5.2% percentile (ranked #729) with 22 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 22 births per million (ranked 5.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Kalan ranks #891 for boys (2.2% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 62.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Kalan reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #851) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kalan".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Kalan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 52.9% confident that Kalan is pronounced as KAY-luhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kuh-LUHN, at 21.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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