girls:
1.5k births since 1952
#4280 (25th percentile)
boys:
4.5k births since 1959
#1808 (61st percentile)
overall:
5.9k births since 1952
#3522 (54th percentile)
The name Kalen is the #3,522 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,939 recorded births since 1952. This represents the 54.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 54.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,808 (60.6% percentile) for all time with 4,481 births since 1959. For girls, it ranks #4,280 (25.1% percentile) for all time with 1,458 births since 1952.
Kalen first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1952 (1952 for girls and 1959 for boys). Birth data for Kalen is available in 66 out of the 72 years between 1952 and 2023 (61 years for boys and 59 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 Kalen has been given predominantly to boys, with 75.5% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Kalen were boys. Interestingly, until around 1962, the name was more popular for girls (66.7% girls from 1952 to 1961), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (75.8% boys from 1962 to 2023).
For boys, Kalen reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 20.5% percentile (ranked #632) with 83 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 83 births per million (ranked 20.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Kalen ranks #860 for boys (5.6% percentile) with 31 births per million, which is 36.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Kalen reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 7.0% percentile (ranked #786) with 33 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 33 births per million (ranked 7.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kalen".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Kalen. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 70.5% confident that Kalen is pronounced as KAY-luhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kuh-LEHN, at 13.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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