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 2004
Top girls' names in 2004
Top boys' names in 2004
More about 2004
girls
1,836,250 girls got a published name in 2004; 1 in 204,028 of them was named Calen, which outranked 43.2% of the 18,835 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #9,892Zohar10
- #9,892Zuly10
- #9,892Zyriah10
- #10,690Calen9
- #10,690Aaleah9
- #10,690Aaleeyah9
- #10,690Aalexis9
- #11,624Aadya8
- #11,624Aalaya8
- #11,624Aaliayah8
Tied with 933 names at #10,690; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,984,979 boys got a published name in 2004; 1 in 34,224 of them was named Calen, which outranked 84.5% of the 13,228 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,024Salem59
- #2,024Tamir59
- #2,024Yamil59
- #2,051Calen58
- #2,051Arlo58
- #2,051Avant58
- #2,051Charly58
- #2,075Alexsander57
- #2,075Asael57
- #2,075Brecken57
Tied with 23 names at #2,051; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.