How popular is “Kahlan” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Kahlan” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

This chart shows how the popularity of “Kahlan” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Kahlan” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

This chart shows how “Kahlan” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1995	5	0.000001365		5	-100%
1997	17	0.000004689	12	5	41%
1998	14	0.000003806	14		100%
1999	19	0.000005144	19		100%
2000	27	0.000007143	27		100%
2001	25	0.000006678	25		100%
2002	35	0.000009363	35		100%
2003	47	0.000012361	47		100%
2004	43	0.000011254	43		100%
2005	44	0.000011444	44		100%
2006	34	0.000008594	34		100%
2007	52	0.000013008	52		100%
2008	65	0.000016537	65		100%
2009	105	0.000027486	105		100%
2010	160	0.000043293	155	5	94%
2011	142	0.000038821	142		100%
2012	125	0.000034178	125		100%
2013	95	0.000026058	95		100%
2014	80	0.000021584	80		100%
2015	75	0.000020265	75		100%
2016	56	0.000015264	56		100%
2017	59	0.000016498	59		100%
2018	42	0.000011946	37	5	76%
2019	42	0.0000121	33	9	57%
2020	35	0.000010477	28	7	60%
2021	29	0.00000856	20	9	38%
2022	32	0.000009459	18	14	13%
2023	20	0.00000604	11	9	10%
2024	25	0.000007511	18	7	44%

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