Caelan
Recorded 1990–2025 · United States
Caelan was most popular in 2001, when 174 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,053 that year. In 2025 it ranked #5,675, with 49 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 3,135 people named Caelan.
Caelan over time
How old is the name Caelan?
Caelan first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1990, which makes it about 35 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 36 of the 36 years since.
How many people are named Caelan?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 3,135 American births named Caelan between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 3,090 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Caelan in 2025?
49 American babies were named Caelan in 2025, ranking #5,675 that year.
Is Caelan getting more or less popular?
Caelan is falling. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 57 births a year, against 81 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of -30% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Caelan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Caelan is a unisex name — 21.2% of the 3,135 Americans given it were girls and 78.8% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 11% girls and 89% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Caelan?
Roughly 3,090 Americans named Caelan are alive today — 99% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 20 years old, and half are between 13 and 25. That is a narrow band: Caelan arrived and faded within about a decade rather than staying in steady use.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Caelan is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org