Kahlan
Kahlan is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 18 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 180.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 2010155 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1997
- 1,549people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,474 girls have been named Kahlan in the United States since 1997, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2010, with 155 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2011, and the 2010s alone account for 58%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 75 boys have also been given it, 4.8% of the total.
By decade
In 2010, its biggest year
Kahlan was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2010 were Isabella, Sophia, Emma, Olivia and Ava. See all of 2010.
Names that rose and fell with Kahlan
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Anabellapeak 2014
- Anabellepeak 2014
- Annabellapeak 2014
- Caelynpeak 2012
- Brileepeak 2012
- Peightonpeak 2010
- Aubrianapeak 2012
- Macynpeak 2011
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.