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Kallan

Kallan reached its high-water mark in 2025 at number 1,906, and has been recorded 1,206 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 1,906th. About 1,200 Kallans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 9.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Kallan boys named Kallan

Girls and boys called Kallan

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Kallan crossed from girls to boys in 2010, and has stayed there for 16 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 100% boys, and in 2025 it was 90%.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 19 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
1,206
Estimated living today
1,200
Median age today
9
Peak year
2025
Best rank
1,906th
Rank in 2025
1,906th
First recorded
1985
Girls / boys
382 / 824

How old the living Kallans are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,206 babies given the name since 1985, about 1,200 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 900 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2016 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Kallan is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Kallan is most concentrated in Texas (6.9×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2025

The most popular boys’ names the year Kallan peaked:

All the names of 2025

Kallan elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Kallan 126 1,078th
Scotland boys Kallan 35 442nd
Ireland boys Kallan 4 616th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Kallan against another name

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.