Kullen
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- KUL-en
- Origin
- Irish
- US rank, 2025
- #6,140 for boys
Kullen is a boys' name of Irish origin, meaning “holly”. In 2025 it ranked 6,140th for boys in the US (14 babies).
What does Kullen mean?
Irish: spelling of Cullen; Irish surname Ó Cuilinn, from cuileann, holly; also a Scottish place name
“holly”
Also a Scottish place name: the fishing town of Cullen in Moray gave its name to the soup Cullen skink.
Meaning borrowed from Cullen. More on Wiktionary.
Is Kullen a girl's or a boy's name?
Kullen is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 14 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kullen in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #6,140among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 14about 1 in 120,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 36% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 14 boys in the US were named Kullen, making it the 6,140th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,915th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 64 boys. It first appears in the records in 1991.
2025 had fewer boys named Kullen than any year since 2006.
Half of all the boys named Kullen in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 208 boys in the US were given Kullen or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #969, up from #6,140 for this spelling alone.
- Cullen 194
- Kullen 14
Kullen in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #6,140 |
| 2024 | 19 | #5,063 |
| 2023 | 18 | #5,250 |
| 2022 | 16 | #5,629 |
| 2021 | 27 | #3,908 |
| 2020 | 26 | #3,915 |
| 2019 | 27 | #3,896 |
| 2018 | 27 | #3,887 |
| 2017 | 32 | #3,437 |
| 2016 | 39 | #2,992 |
| 2015 | 36 | #3,148 |
| 2014 | 45 | #2,659 |
| 2013 | 33 | #3,263 |
| 2012 | 64 | #2,103 |
| 2011 | 51 | #2,436 |
| 2010 | 54 | #2,353 |
| 2009 | 34 | #3,272 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,482 |
| 2007 | 15 | #5,658 |
| 2006 | 9 | #7,992 |
| 2005 | 11 | #6,628 |
| 2004 | 15 | #5,241 |
| 2003 | 19 | #4,271 |
| 2002 | 8 | #7,636 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,438 |
| 2000 | 17 | #4,383 |
| 1999 | 23 | #3,372 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,460 |
| 1997 | 13 | #4,663 |
| 1996 | 16 | #4,016 |
| 1995 | 13 | #4,502 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,103 |
| 1993 | 7 | #6,809 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,120 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,263 |
Names like Kullen
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kayden Brayden Aiden Keegan Declan Kian Ronan Finn Raiden Kellan Callan Finnegan
Other spellings of Kullen
Names related to Kullen
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Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Kullen: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kullen, updated 20 October 2026.