# Kellan (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/kellan/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Irish |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 11,269 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 10,752 / 517 (5% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 377, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 23 | 5,880 |
| 2011 | 21 | 6,246 |
| 2012 | 17 | 7,296 |
| 2013 | 27 | 5,072 |
| 2014 | 16 | 7,485 |
| 2015 | 12 | 9,232 |
| 2016 | 9 | 11,329 |
| 2017 | 8 | 12,214 |
| 2018 | 11 | 9,486 |
| 2019 | 7 | 13,125 |
| 2020 | 8 | 11,620 |
| 2021 | 10 | 9,940 |
| 2022 | 8 | 11,728 |
| 2024 | 6 | 14,375 |
| 2025 | 8 | 11,425 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 819 | 364 |
| 2012 | 813 | 373 |
| 2013 | 843 | 368 |
| 2014 | 809 | 385 |
| 2015 | 776 | 398 |
| 2016 | 601 | 500 |
| 2017 | 503 | 552 |
| 2018 | 438 | 617 |
| 2019 | 308 | 769 |
| 2020 | 370 | 689 |
| 2021 | 285 | 836 |
| 2022 | 284 | 854 |
| 2023 | 257 | 907 |
| 2024 | 252 | 921 |
| 2025 | 215 | 1,031 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 3 | 3,848 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 14 | 1,600 |
| 2012 | 32 | 927 |
| 2013 | 35 | 850 |
| 2014 | 33 | 889 |
| 2015 | 25 | 1,095 |
| 2016 | 23 | 1,187 |
| 2017 | 18 | 1,398 |
| 2018 | 11 | 1,991 |
| 2019 | 17 | 1,439 |
| 2020 | 8 | 2,404 |
| 2021 | 5 | 3,451 |
| 2022 | 13 | 1,781 |
| 2023 | 8 | 2,546 |
| 2024 | 11 | 2,088 |
| 2025 | 4 | 4,275 |

## People named Kellan

- Kellan Lutz, American actor and model

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.