girls:
5 births since 2008
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
192 births since 1996
#4394 (4th percentile)
overall:
197 births since 1996
#7542 (3rd percentile)
The name Khalen is the #7,542 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 197 recorded births since 1996. This represents the 2.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,394 (4.1% percentile) for all time with 192 births since 1996. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2008.
Khalen first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1996 (1996 for boys and 2008 for girls). Birth data for Khalen is available in 24 out of the 28 years between 1996 and 2023 (24 years for boys and 1 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 Khalen has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Khalen reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #888) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Khalen ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 32.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Khalen reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #984) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Khalen".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Khalen. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 81.8% confident that Khalen is pronounced as KAY-luhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kuh-LEHN, at 18.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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