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Kahlan

Kahlan is a girl's name that peaked in 2010, when it was the 1,456th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 9,457th. About 1,600 Kahlans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Kahlan boys named Kahlan

By the numbers

Total US births
1,569
Estimated living today
1,600
Median age today
14
Peak year
2010
Best rank
1,456th
Rank in 2025
9,457th
First recorded
1995
Girls / boys
1,484 / 85

How old the living Kahlans are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,569 babies given the name since 1995, about 1,600 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 1,200 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Kahlan is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Kahlan is most concentrated in Florida (2.7×), Texas (2.5×), Virginia (2.1×), North Carolina (1.7×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2010

The most popular girls’ names the year Kahlan peaked:

All the names of 2010

Kahlan elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Kahlan 108 1,150th
France girls Kahlan 70 3,556th
Scotland girls Kahlan 10 458th
Ireland girls Kahlan 5 663rd

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Kahlan against another name

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.