girls:
94 births since 1984
#5622 (2nd percentile)
boys:
1.1k births since 1982
#3502 (24th percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1982
#6547 (15th percentile)
The name Kellin is the #6,547 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,193 recorded births since 1982. This represents the 15.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 15.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,502 (23.6% percentile) for all time with 1,099 births since 1982. For girls, it ranks #5,622 (1.6% percentile) for all time with 94 births since 1984.
Kellin first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1982 (1982 for boys and 1984 for girls). Birth data for Kellin is available in 40 out of the 42 years between 1982 and 2023 (40 years for boys and 16 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 Kellin has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 92.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Kellin reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 11.6% percentile (ranked #799) with 54 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 54 births per million (ranked 11.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Kellin ranks #864 for boys (5.2% percentile) with 28 births per million, which is 52.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Kellin reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #820) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% 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 "Kellin".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Kellin is pronounced as KEH-lihn, which has 2 syllables.
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