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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Kalen” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kalen” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Kalen” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Kalen” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Kalen” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Kalen” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Kalen” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kalen” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1952 5 0.000001316 5 100%
1955 5 0.000001245 5 100%
1958 10 0.000002419 10 100%
1959 18 0.000004329 10 8 11%
1961 7 0.00000169 7 -100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 -100%
1963 8 0.000002021 8 -100%
1964 12 0.000003087 12 -100%
1965 20 0.000005517 11 9 10%
1966 12 0.000003453 6 6 0%
1967 15 0.000004418 10 5 33%
1968 16 0.000004736 7 9 -13%
1969 7 0.000002014 7 100%
1970 13 0.000003605 5 8 -23%
1971 30 0.00000874 23 7 53%
1973 10 0.000003315 10 100%
1974 21 0.000006908 9 12 -14%
1975 18 0.000005961 10 8 11%
1976 21 0.000006921 7 14 -33%
1977 16 0.000005037 5 11 -38%
1978 29 0.000009137 7 22 -52%
1979 26 0.000007815 9 17 -31%
1980 38 0.000011032 7 31 -63%
1981 52 0.000015032 14 38 -46%
1982 71 0.00002024 19 52 -46%
1983 70 0.000020212 20 50 -43%
1984 82 0.000023504 21 61 -49%
1985 107 0.000029979 24 83 -55%
1986 119 0.000033454 30 89 -50%
1987 140 0.000038828 34 106 -51%
1988 139 0.000037618 44 95 -37%
1989 140 0.000036416 40 100 -43%
1990 138 0.000034915 34 104 -51%
1991 122 0.00003132 46 76 -25%
1992 174 0.000045297 44 130 -49%
1993 193 0.00005119 60 133 -38%
1994 185 0.000049763 64 121 -31%
1995 184 0.000050244 43 141 -53%
1996 157 0.000043047 47 110 -40%
1997 161 0.000044405 52 109 -35%
1998 226 0.000061443 57 169 -50%
1999 176 0.000047647 55 121 -38%
2000 173 0.000045768 53 120 -39%
2001 181 0.000048352 48 133 -47%
2002 166 0.000044405 51 115 -39%
2003 183 0.000048129 39 144 -57%
2004 151 0.000039519 29 122 -62%
2005 164 0.000042655 44 120 -46%
2006 155 0.000039179 37 118 -52%
2007 180 0.000045026 33 147 -63%
2008 159 0.000040451 36 123 -55%
2009 160 0.000041883 20 140 -75%
2010 144 0.000038964 19 125 -74%
2011 132 0.000036087 26 106 -61%
2012 104 0.000028436 18 86 -65%
2013 104 0.000028527 20 84 -62%
2014 99 0.000026711 21 78 -58%
2015 81 0.000021886 15 66 -63%
2016 75 0.000020443 9 66 -76%
2017 63 0.000017616 11 52 -65%
2018 73 0.000020763 6 67 -84%
2019 80 0.000023049 80 -100%
2020 65 0.000019458 65 -100%
2021 107 0.000031583 7 100 -87%
2022 87 0.000025716 5 82 -89%
2023 56 0.000016912 56 -100%
2024 74 0.000022232 74 -100%

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