Kellan

maleStatistical record

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

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

Kellan: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #699 in 2015, and it stood at #2,088 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
33times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#699highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Trend unknown

among girls in England and Wales · 1998

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#3848

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

Trend unknownEngland and Wales · Girls

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

In 2015: #699 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #1095 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2357 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
Highest recorded2013–2015
Highest recorded position: #699 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2015 (recorded 2013–2015).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2088 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Kellan 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 370 births with the name.

Kellan 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.

Kellan'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	#2357 (1996)	#832 (2010)	#2088 (2024)	29 of 29	370 (1996–2024)	35 (2010)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#711 (2013)	#699 (2015)	#699 (2015)	3 of 3	9 (2013–2015)	3 (2013)

Kellan 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 Kellan in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	25	4 of 10	6
2000s	57	10 of 10	6
2010sbusiest	243	10 of 10	24
2020s	45	5 of 10	9

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 24 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2009 and 2010, when recorded births rose by 30, from 5 to 35.

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

Kellan 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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #699 in Republic of Ireland in 2015.

Kellan'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	#2088	11	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2546	8	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1781	13	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3451	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2404	8	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1439	17	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1991	11	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1398	18	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1187	23	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1095	25	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#889	33	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#850	35	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#927	32	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1600	14	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#832	35	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3227	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3687	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2211	8	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#3385	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2174	7	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2578	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1629	9	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2636	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2220	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1889	6	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1664	7	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1367	9	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2022	5	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2357	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#699	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#715	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#711	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #699, first reached in 2015.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 35 births, registered in England and Wales in 2010.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2013, and 17 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.

Keleigh · #534, 13y
Kelis · #377, 20y
Kelley · #242, 29y
Kelli · #362, 15y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Alvaro · #699, 26y
Maxx · #699, 27y
Ruhan · #699, 24y
Tamim · #699, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Alvaro · #699, 26y
Kiki · #699, 26y
Maxx · #699, 27y
Tamim · #699, 26y

Kellan was ranked #699 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2015. 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.

Kellan 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 Kellan without appearing here.

Kellan moved ahead of

Brooke Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3227 and #2318 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #832 and #4678.
Garry Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3227 and #3227 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #832 and #4678.
Tayla Compare
In 2012 they stood at #3227 and #2318 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #850 and #4685.
Kim Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3227 and #2544 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #832 and #3865.

Moved ahead of Kellan

Kasper Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1629 and #2857 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #2578 and #1347.
Matheo Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1781 and #2018 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2546 and #1363.
Isak Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1781 and #3449 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2546 and #1461.
Aksel Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1398 and #1812 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #1991 and #1382.

Moved the opposite way to Kellan

Kim Compare
Between 1996 and 2015 in England and Wales · Boys, Kellan went from #2357 to #1095 while Kim went from #1168 to #4747.
Kristoffer Compare
Between 1996 and 2015 in England and Wales · Boys, Kellan went from #2357 to #1095 while Kristoffer went from #2357 to #3373.
Tayla Compare
Between 1996 and 2015 in England and Wales · Boys, Kellan went from #2357 to #1095 while Tayla went from #1458 to #4747.
Morten Compare
Between 1997 and 2015 in England and Wales · Boys, Kellan went from #2022 to #1095 while Morten went from #2859 to #4747.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #699 in Republic of Ireland in 2015. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Kellan

Kellan at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kellan across 2 official records

Kellan by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Kellan appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Kellan at a glance

Kellan across 2 official records

Kellan by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Kellan appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Kellan

Kellan and the names beside it

Kellan moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Kellan

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