girls:
26 births since 1988
#5690 (0th percentile)
boys:
6.5k births since 1914
#1461 (68th percentile)
overall:
6.6k births since 1914
#3330 (57th percentile)
The name Kelton is the #3,330 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,573 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 57.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 57.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,461 (68.1% percentile) for all time with 6,547 births since 1914. For girls, it ranks #5,690 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 26 births since 1988.
Kelton first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for boys and 1988 for girls). Birth data for Kelton is available in 107 out of the 110 years between 1914 and 2023 (107 years for boys and 5 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 Kelton has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Kelton reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 27.0% percentile (ranked #594) with 109 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 109 births per million (ranked 27.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2012, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Kelton ranks #867 for boys (4.8% percentile) with 27 births per million, which is 24.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Kelton reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #858) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2005.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kelton".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Kelton is pronounced as KEHL-tuhn, which has 2 syllables.
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