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 | ||
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| 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.
Where Calder is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#1,442 · 1 in 12,733
- Texas#1,500 · 1 in 15,557
- California#2,214 · 1 in 31,563
Best ever in a state: #341 in Oregon, 2010.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #1,442 | 7 | 1 in 12,733 |
| Texas | #1,500 | 11 | 1 in 15,557 |
| California | #2,214 | 6 | 1 in 31,563 |
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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 |
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| 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 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 21,869 of them was named Calder, which outranked 86.5% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,884Salman81
- #1,884Samarth81
- #1,884Taylin81
- #1,903Calder80
- #1,903Alexandre80
- #1,903Daxtyn80
- #1,903Diesel80
- #1,915Aj79
- #1,915Amadeus79
- #1,915Beauden79
Tied with 11 names at #1,903; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.