Kalen is a unisex first name, but it has been given primarily to boys for a number of years.
Few children have been named Kalen in recent years. Although it is used several times each year, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 children are currently called Kalen. Whether you’re a boy or a girl, you will most likely be the only person with the special name Kalen at your school. In our SmartGenius ranking, Kalen is number *** on the list of most common first names.
In fact, the name Kalen hardly fits the trend of first names. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Kalen wasn't given at all (or at least less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), but by 1998, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 1,623, 226 parents chose it in 1998 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Kalen, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Kalen was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Kalen a few times. Among all newborn babies, it ranked 3,934, for a total of 86 newborns. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it didn't appear at all for a many years. As Kalen seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a quite popular first letter for given names. That’s because 7.7% of all common first names in the US begin with this letter. Only the initial letters A and J are more common for first names.
With five letters, the name Kalen is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 7.7% of all first names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average.
If your name is Kalen and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Kalen, you can simply say:
Koala
Apple
Lion
Elephant
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Kalen
Kalen
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
K
A
L
E
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
K
A
L
E
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Kalen sounds like this:
