girls:
503 births since 1968
#5213 (9th percentile)
boys:
10.3k births since 1958
#1149 (75th percentile)
overall:
10.8k births since 1958
#2547 (67th percentile)
The name Kellan is the #2,547 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 10,784 recorded births since 1958. This represents the 67.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 67.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,149 (74.9% percentile) for all time with 10,281 births since 1958. For girls, it ranks #5,213 (8.8% percentile) for all time with 503 births since 1968.
Kellan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1958 (1958 for boys and 1968 for girls). Birth data for Kellan is available in 46 out of the 66 years between 1958 and 2023 (45 years for boys and 43 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 Kellan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Kellan reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 61.3% percentile (ranked #341) with 393 births per million. The name was most common in 2013, with 417 births per million (ranked 60.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Kellan ranks #662 for boys (27.4% percentile) with 140 births per million, which is 33.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Kellan reached its peak popularity in 2013, achieving the 2.4% percentile (ranked #909) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 2013, with 14 births per million (ranked 2.4% 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 "Kellan".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Kellan is pronounced as KEH-luhn, which has 2 syllables.
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