Calan

Last seen for girls in 1992 at #9,491 · #3,379 for boys in 2025, 34 births
Given to boys 98.0% of the time

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Peak · boys
2018 · 51 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
974
since 1984

Calan over time

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Rank among boys' names. Calan has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201984peak #2,507, 2018boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#3,37934
2024#3,79329
2023#3,11739
2022#2,75347
2021#3,12138
2020#2,84642
2019#3,49632
2018#2,50751
2017#3,24935
2016#3,23035
2015#3,77528
2014#4,86619
2013#3,26533
2012#3,89426
2011#3,23534
2010#2,63246
2009#3,39932
2008#3,48631
2007#2,97439
2006#4,00124
2005#3,71025
2004#3,73524
2003#5,27114
2002#5,13114
2001#6,01311
2000#4,57316
1999#5,65611
1998#5,84010
1997#5,64210
1996#5,53510
1995#5,12411
1994#3,75117
1993#5,36010
1992#9,4918#3,45918
1991#5,9428
1990#6,4157
1989#9,6817#3,61815
1988#3,52314
1987#3,95911
1986#10,9125#5,9266
1985#3,59912
1984#5,5616
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First appearance
1984

The first year at least five boys were named Calan! It came in at #5,561, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1984, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.

See more about Calan
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 414 spots since 2024 (#3,793#3,379)
  • 533 spots since 2020 (#2,846#3,379)
  • 396 spots since 2015 (#3,775#3,379)
Rise & fade · boys
34 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1984
  • Peaked 2018 at #2,507 (51 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 35,611
  • Highest: 1 in 35,611 boys born in 2018 were named Calan (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 50,238 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 34.8% of all boys named Calan (339) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s64#3,523 (1988)#4,364
1990s112#3,459 (1992)#5,272
2000s230#2,974 (2007)#4,229
2010s339#2,507 (2018)#3,415
2020s229#2,753 (2022)#3,168

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Calan in 1984

boys
#5,561
6 births · 1 in 300,808 boys

Top boys' names in 1984

  1. #1Michael67,735
  2. #2Christopher60,021
  3. #3Matthew49,767
  4. #4Joshua40,266
  5. #5David38,492
  6. #6Daniel36,531
  7. #7James35,859
  8. #8John32,610
  9. #9Robert31,768
  10. #10Joseph30,513
  11. #5,561Calan6
More about 1984

boys

1,804,848 boys got a published name in 1984; 1 in 300,808 of them was named Calan, which outranked 24.2% of the 7,341 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Calan
  1. #4,973Zenon7
  2. #4,973Zeus7
  3. #4,973Zubair7
  4. #5,561Calan6
  5. #5,561Aaryn6
  6. #5,561Abdulaziz6
  7. #5,561Abdur6
  8. #6,315Abbott5
  9. #6,315Abdel5
  10. #6,315Abdon5

Tied with 753 names at #5,561; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1983
Risers
  1. 958Ryne#1,562#604
  2. 472Rachel#1,448#976
  3. 399Zebulon#1,375#976
  4. 359Travon#1,327#968
  5. 347Mackenzie#1,347#1,000
Fallers
  1. 741Trumaine#949#1,690
  2. 422Basil#1,000#1,422
  3. 240Alfonzo#1,000#1,240
  4. 208Jasen#804#1,012
  5. 205Woodrow#949#1,154

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1984