Kaelan

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Kaelan: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Kaelan: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #358 in 2016, and it stood at #829 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
37times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#358highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1458
1997	#2337
1998	#1821
1999	#1850
2000	#2142
2001	#1595
2002	#1799
2003	#2470
2004	#1110
2005	#1377
2006	#1347
2007	#1053
2008	#1085
2009	#777
2010	#792
2011	#602
2012	#606
2013	#837
2014	#781
2015	#927
2016	#928
2017	#1146
2018	#1061
2019	#908
2020	#1192
2021	#1516
2022	#1692
2023	#1610
2024	#1235

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #382 among boys in Scotland, #1235 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1458 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #829 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Kaelan appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 641 births with the name.

Kaelan across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Kaelan's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1458 (1996)	#602 (2011)	#1235 (2024)	29 of 29	641 (1996–2024)	58 (2012)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#412 (2008)	#412 (2008)	#829 (2025)	6 of 18	26 (2008–2025)	8 (2008)

Kaelan by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Kaelan in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	24	4 of 10	6
2000s	154	10 of 10	15
2010sbusiest	374	10 of 10	37
2020s	89	5 of 10	18

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 37 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Kaelan appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #358 in Northern Ireland in 2016.

Kaelan's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#1235	22	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1610	15	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1692	14	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1516	16	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1192	22	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#908	32	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1061	26	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1146	24	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#928	32	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#927	32	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#781	40	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#837	36	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#606	58	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#602	57	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#792	37	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#777	37	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1085	23	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1053	23	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1347	15	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1377	14	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1110	17	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2470	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1799	7	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1595	8	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2142	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1850	6	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1821	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2337	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1458	8	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	male	#358	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#829	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#764	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#749	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#550	5	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#604	4	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#412	8	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#382	9	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #358, first reached in 2016.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 58 births, registered in England and Wales in 2012.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2008, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Kael · #605, 23y
Kaela · #273, 22y
Kaelem · #616, 16y
Kaelen · #547, 21y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Jess · #355, 31y
Ameera · #354, 30y
Timur · #362, 30y
Callen · #363, 27y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Alanis · #358, 29y
Aqib · #358, 29y
Cortney · #358, 16y
Ella-May · #358, 28y

Kaelan was ranked #358 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2016. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Kaelan and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Kaelan without appearing here.

Kaelan moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1610 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1235 and #5119.
Graeme Compare
In 2003 they stood at #2470 and #2189 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #1110 and #3009.
Shannon Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1595 and #1467 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #1799 and #3225.
Geoffrey Compare
In 2006 they stood at #1347 and #1224 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #1053 and #2435.

Moved ahead of Kaelan

Arlo Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1595 and #1949 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #1799 and #848.
Leif Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1516 and #1782 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #1692 and #967.
Aksel Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1516 and #1688 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #1692 and #1224.
Hudson Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1110 and #1160 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #1377 and #982.

Moved the opposite way to Kaelan

Morten Compare
Between 1997 and 2015 in England and Wales · Boys, Kaelan went from #2337 to #927 while Morten went from #2859 to #4747.
Ashleigh Compare
Between 1996 and 2009 in England and Wales · Boys, Kaelan went from #1458 to #777 while Ashleigh went from #402 to #3227.

Moved the same way as Kaelan

Cooper Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kaelan went from #2337 to #1235 and Cooper from #2022 to #139.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #358 in Northern Ireland in 2016. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Kaelan

Kaelan at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kaelan across 2 official records

Kaelan by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Kaelan across 2 official records

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