Kelin
Kelin reached its high-water mark in 2006 at number 3,451, and has been recorded 799 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 780 Kelins are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 23.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Kelin boys named Kelin
Girls and boys called Kelin
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 321 girls and 478 boys in all, and in 2010 the split was 13 to 17.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 10 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
- 799
- Estimated living today
- 780
- Median age today
- 23
- Peak year
- 2006
- Best rank
- 3,451st
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1968
- Girls / boys
- 321 / 478
How old the living Kelins are
born that year still alive today
Of the 799 babies given the name since 1968, about 780 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2002 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 Kelin is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2006
The most popular boys’ names the year Kelin peaked:
Related names
Kelin against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.