Calen
Last seen for girls in 2022 at #15,306 · #3,314 for boys in 2025, 35 births
Given to boys 91.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1987 · 67 births
- Debut · boys
- 12 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,494since 1977
Calen over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | — | #3,314 | 35 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,750 | 47 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,575 | 51 | |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #2,589 | 52 |
| 2021 | — | #2,862 | 43 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,759 | 44 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,582 | 50 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,300 | 58 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,840 | 42 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,110 | 66 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,212 | 61 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,044 | 69 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,811 | 79 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,668 | 92 | |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #1,533 | 103 |
| 2010 | — | #1,626 | 96 | |
| 2009 | #12,429 | 8 | #2,035 | 68 |
| 2008 | #10,084 | 11 | #1,932 | 74 |
| 2007 | #12,676 | 8 | #1,681 | 90 |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | #1,790 | 77 |
| 2005 | #8,883 | 12 | #2,129 | 57 |
| 2004 | #10,690 | 9 | #2,051 | 58 |
| 2003 | #9,048 | 11 | #2,238 | 48 |
| 2002 | #8,837 | 11 | #1,916 | 58 |
| 2001 | #7,317 | 14 | #1,841 | 60 |
| 2000 | #8,027 | 12 | #1,799 | 60 |
| 1999 | #8,805 | 10 | #2,098 | 45 |
| 1998 | #10,122 | 8 | #1,987 | 48 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | #2,060 | 43 |
| 1996 | #7,574 | 11 | #1,705 | 55 |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 | #1,623 | 56 |
| 1994 | #7,604 | 11 | #1,643 | 55 |
| 1993 | #8,052 | 10 | #1,824 | 46 |
| 1992 | #8,734 | 9 | #2,174 | 35 |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 | #1,983 | 38 |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 | #2,128 | 34 |
| 1989 | — | #1,550 | 52 | |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 | #1,525 | 48 |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | #1,175 | 67 |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | #1,535 | 43 |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | #1,290 | 55 |
| 1984 | — | #1,796 | 31 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,748 | 32 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,596 | 18 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,030 | 14 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,430 | 12 | |
| 1979 | — | #4,068 | 9 | |
| 1978 | — | #4,157 | 8 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,203 | 12 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Calen! It came in at #3,203, and was given to 12 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1977–1980, when fewer than 13 boys a year got the name.
See more about Calen
- 564 spots since 2024 (#2,750 → #3,314)
- 555 spots since 2020 (#2,759 → #3,314)
- 1,102 spots since 2015 (#2,212 → #3,314)
- Debuted 1977
- Peaked 1987 at #1,175 (67 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 18,439 boys born in 2011 were named Calen (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 48,802 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,175 in 1987, was only 1 in 27,865 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 28.7% of all boys named Calen (716) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 29 | #3,203 (1977) | #3,809 |
| 1980s | 372 | #1,175 (1987) | #1,968 |
| 1990s | 455 | #1,623 (1995) | #1,923 |
| 2000s | 650 | #1,681 (2007) | #1,941 |
| 2010s | 716 | #1,533 (2011) | #2,073 |
| 2020s | 272 | #2,575 (2023) | #2,808 |
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.
Calen in 1994
Top girls' names in 1994
Top boys' names in 1994
More about 1994
girls
1,785,753 girls got a published name in 1994; 1 in 162,341 of them was named Calen, which outranked 51.7% of the 15,759 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #7,097Yu12
- #7,097Zuleica12
- #7,097Zuleyka12
- #7,604Calen11
- #7,604Abeni11
- #7,604Abreanna11
- #7,604Adanna11
- #8,122Aalyah10
- #8,122Aamina10
- #8,122Abbe10
Tied with 517 names at #7,604; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,932,031 boys got a published name in 1994; 1 in 35,128 of them was named Calen, which outranked 84.0% of the 10,245 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,633Sebastien56
- #1,633Tyran56
- #1,633Tyre56
- #1,643Calen55
- #1,643Alston55
- #1,643Christoper55
- #1,643Cordarius55
- #1,664Akshay54
- #1,664Aleksander54
- #1,664Armond54
Tied with 20 names at #1,643; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.