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How popular is “Kellen” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kellen” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kellen” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kellen” 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
1954 5 0.000001256 5 -100%
1955 5 0.000001245 5 -100%
1956 5 0.000001213 5 -100%
1957 11 0.000002618 11 -100%
1958 8 0.000001935 8 -100%
1959 9 0.000002165 9 -100%
1960 10 0.000002407 10 -100%
1961 16 0.000003863 9 7 13%
1962 16 0.000003965 9 7 13%
1963 17 0.000004295 10 7 18%
1965 16 0.000004413 11 5 38%
1966 13 0.00000374 6 7 -8%
1967 7 0.000002062 7 100%
1968 5 0.00000148 5 100%
1969 8 0.000002302 8 100%
1975 12 0.000003974 7 5 17%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 -100%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 -100%
1979 16 0.000004809 5 11 -38%
1980 53 0.000015387 9 44 -66%
1981 222 0.000064173 31 191 -72%
1982 448 0.000127709 40 408 -82%
1983 416 0.000120115 33 383 -84%
1984 367 0.000105195 25 342 -86%
1985 395 0.000110672 40 355 -80%
1986 369 0.000103737 51 318 -72%
1987 348 0.000096516 54 294 -69%
1988 347 0.00009391 57 290 -67%
1989 269 0.000069971 40 229 -70%
1990 261 0.000066035 27 234 -79%
1991 228 0.000058533 39 189 -66%
1992 212 0.00005519 41 171 -61%
1993 226 0.000059943 42 184 -63%
1994 208 0.000055949 44 164 -58%
1995 266 0.000072635 39 227 -71%
1996 244 0.000066901 37 207 -70%
1997 216 0.000059574 26 190 -76%
1998 221 0.000060084 29 192 -74%
1999 248 0.000067138 25 223 -80%
2000 288 0.000076192 22 266 -85%
2001 257 0.000068654 15 242 -88%
2002 287 0.000076773 17 270 -88%
2003 417 0.00010967 30 387 -86%
2004 512 0.000133999 37 475 -86%
2005 491 0.000127703 20 471 -92%
2006 508 0.000128406 21 487 -92%
2007 539 0.000134828 20 519 -93%
2008 651 0.000165621 23 628 -93%
2009 677 0.000177217 24 653 -93%
2010 866 0.000234324 26 840 -94%
2011 902 0.000246597 23 879 -95%
2012 954 0.000260843 22 932 -95%
2013 778 0.000213404 19 759 -95%
2014 684 0.000184547 12 672 -96%
2015 594 0.000160501 25 569 -92%
2016 456 0.000124295 16 440 -93%
2017 430 0.00012024 10 420 -95%
2018 358 0.000101823 12 346 -93%
2019 319 0.000091906 11 308 -93%
2020 304 0.000091002 13 291 -91%
2021 283 0.000083531 12 271 -92%
2022 313 0.000092518 14 299 -91%
2023 260 0.000078521 10 250 -92%
2024 216 0.000064894 216 -100%

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