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 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 323,310 of them was named Calder, which outranked 13.9% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,439 names at #15,088; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 20,071 of them was named Calder, which outranked 87.4% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,758Shay87
- #1,758Stryker87
- #1,758Tobin87
- #1,766Calder86
- #1,766Amauri86
- #1,766Armoni86
- #1,766Dan86
- #1,778Ajay85
- #1,778Ellison85
- #1,778Emmit85
Tied with 11 names at #1,766; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.