Kellen
Kellen is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 216 births. Its best rank was 337th, in 2012.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2160.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 2012932 births
- Best rank
- #337in 2012
- Since 1954
- 18,097people given the name
The story in the numbers
16,837 boys have been named Kellen in the United States since 1954, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2012, with 932 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2008, and the 2010s alone account for 37%. It has spent 43 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,260 girls have also been given it, 7.0% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2012, its biggest year
Kellen was the 337th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2012 were Jacob, Mason, Ethan, Noah and William. See all of 2012.
Names that rose and fell with Kellen
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jacobypeak 2008
- Nicholaipeak 2017
- Calenpeak 2011
- Calinpeak 2011
- Jamerepeak 2009
- Chacepeak 2009
- Amaurypeak 2009
- Joellpeak 2011
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.