Calder
Last seen for girls in 2020 at #15,088 · #1,728 for boys in 2025, 94 births
Given to boys 98.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2016 · 120 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,166since 1980
Calder over time
Rank among boys' names. Calder has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,728 | 94 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,985 | 78 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,547 | 113 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,826 | 88 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,903 | 80 | |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #1,766 | 86 |
| 2019 | — | #1,816 | 84 | |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 | #1,648 | 98 |
| 2017 | — | #1,530 | 107 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,443 | 120 | |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | #1,853 | 79 |
| 2014 | — | #1,730 | 87 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,964 | 70 | |
| 2012 | #13,483 | 7 | #2,091 | 65 |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 | #1,835 | 77 |
| 2010 | — | #2,069 | 65 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,099 | 65 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,125 | 64 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,974 | 39 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,102 | 62 | |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | #2,752 | 39 |
| 2004 | — | #2,075 | 57 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,545 | 40 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,556 | 38 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,143 | 28 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,674 | 34 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,103 | 26 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,191 | 24 | |
| 1997 | — | #3,738 | 18 | |
| 1996 | — | #4,022 | 16 | |
| 1995 | — | #3,303 | 20 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,215 | 21 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,697 | 26 | |
| 1992 | — | #3,604 | 17 | |
| 1991 | — | #4,231 | 13 | |
| 1990 | — | #3,971 | 14 | |
| 1989 | — | #3,205 | 18 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,509 | 23 | |
| 1987 | — | #3,959 | 11 | |
| 1986 | — | #5,926 | 6 | |
| 1985 | — | #3,401 | 13 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,529 | 19 | |
| 1983 | — | #5,484 | 6 | |
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| 1981 | — | #4,153 | 9 | |
| 1980 | — | #4,134 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Calder! It came in at #4,134, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1982, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Calder
- 257 spots since 2024 (#1,985 → #1,728)
- 38 spots since 2020 (#1,766 → #1,728)
- 125 spots since 2015 (#1,853 → #1,728)
- Debuted 1980
- Peaked 2016 at #1,443 (120 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 15,138 boys born in 2023 were named Calder (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 18,171 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,443 in 2016, was only 1 in 15,814 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 39.3% of all boys named Calder (852) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 114 | #2,509 (1988) | #3,922 |
| 1990s | 195 | #2,697 (1993) | #3,508 |
| 2000s | 466 | #2,075 (2004) | #2,505 |
| 2010s | 852 | #1,443 (2016) | #1,798 |
| 2020s | 539 | #1,547 (2023) | #1,793 |
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.
Calder in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 251,579 of them was named Calder, which outranked 31.0% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #12,199Zynia8
- #12,199Zyniyah8
- #12,199Zyrie8
- #13,483Calder7
- #13,483Aalayiah7
- #13,483Aalaysia7
- #13,483Aaliayah7
- #14,962Aadhira6
- #14,962Aahna6
- #14,962Aalyssa6
Tied with 1,478 names at #13,483; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 29,184 of them was named Calder, which outranked 85.3% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,066Remi66
- #2,066Shalom66
- #2,066Teo66
- #2,091Calder65
- #2,091Ash65
- #2,091Brixton65
- #2,091Daven65
- #2,104Alain64
- #2,104Blair64
- #2,104Brenner64
Tied with 12 names at #2,091; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.