Caelan

What Caelan means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Caelan yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #352 vs #2,884 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Caelan?

US: Falling: down from #2412 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #388 in 2015, #352 now.

Biggest US share so far: 2001, when 135 boys got the name (#1068 that year). First in the US records in 1992.

How common

• About 1 in 39,723 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,285 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 702 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in CA (0.03 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Caelan is #2884 in the US and #352 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 87.8% of US babies named Caelan were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Callan1,917 US · 56 E&W
• Callen579 US · 7 E&W
• Kallan82 US
• Keelan55 US · 12 E&W
• Kaylan18 US · 24 E&W
• Calan34 US · 6 E&W
• Calen35 US · 3 E&W
• Kailan28 US · 9 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Caelan

Boys

• Hunter#130From the word “hunter”^*
• Griffin#222Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #222 vs #1,035 in 2025
• Cole#182“coal, coal-black”^*
• Avery#291Editor’s note Down from #188 in 2015 to #291 in 2025 in the US
• Kaiden#237Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1992, with 12 babies
• Connor#166“lover of hounds”^*

For a sister

• Delaney#242“from the alder grove”^*
• Peyton#199Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #72 in 2015, #199 in 2025
• Autumn#88Editor’s note Down from #69 in 2015 to #88 in 2025 in the US
• Savannah#135From the word “savannah”^*
• Kennedy#85“head + ugly”^*
• Jade#95Editor’s note Up from #126 in 2015 to #95 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 600 US girls in the 2025 records

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Caelan’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.