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How popular is “Kellan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kellan” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Kellan” 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 “Kellan” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kellan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kellan” 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
1958 6 0.000001451 6 -100%
1968 5 0.00000148 5 100%
1980 9 0.000002613 9 -100%
1981 31 0.000008961 10 21 -35%
1982 52 0.000014823 11 41 -58%
1983 53 0.000015303 10 43 -62%
1984 42 0.000012039 9 33 -57%
1985 59 0.000016531 12 47 -59%
1986 78 0.000021928 13 65 -67%
1987 58 0.000016086 7 51 -76%
1988 43 0.000011637 7 36 -67%
1989 60 0.000015607 9 51 -70%
1990 57 0.000014421 11 46 -61%
1991 52 0.00001335 10 42 -62%
1992 63 0.000016401 8 55 -75%
1993 49 0.000012996 6 43 -76%
1994 53 0.000014256 8 45 -70%
1995 52 0.000014199 12 40 -54%
1996 56 0.000015354 13 43 -54%
1997 55 0.000015169 11 44 -60%
1998 69 0.000018759 13 56 -62%
1999 64 0.000017326 7 57 -78%
2000 76 0.000020106 15 61 -61%
2001 79 0.000021104 6 73 -85%
2002 94 0.000025145 9 85 -81%
2003 109 0.000028667 8 101 -85%
2004 141 0.000036902 14 127 -80%
2005 145 0.000037713 11 134 -85%
2006 147 0.000037157 19 128 -74%
2007 247 0.000061786 19 228 -85%
2008 175 0.000044522 14 161 -84%
2009 419 0.000109681 19 400 -91%
2010 830 0.000224583 23 807 -94%
2011 840 0.000229647 21 819 -95%
2012 830 0.000226939 17 813 -96%
2013 870 0.000238639 27 843 -94%
2014 825 0.000222589 16 809 -96%
2015 788 0.00021292 12 776 -97%
2016 610 0.000166272 9 601 -97%
2017 511 0.000142889 8 503 -97%
2018 449 0.000127706 11 438 -95%
2019 315 0.000090754 7 308 -96%
2020 378 0.000113154 8 370 -96%
2021 295 0.000087073 10 285 -93%
2022 292 0.00008631 8 284 -95%
2023 257 0.000077615 257 -100%
2024 258 0.000077512 6 252 -95%

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