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.
Where Calen is popular in 2007
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Indiana#850 · 1 in 7,835
- Illinois#1,221 · 1 in 12,876
- California#1,619 · 1 in 26,148
Best ever in a state: #482 in Missouri, 1987.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Indiana | #850 | 5 | 1 in 7,835 |
| Illinois | #1,221 | 6 | 1 in 12,876 |
| California | #1,619 | 10 | 1 in 26,148 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 2007
Top girls' names in 2007
Top boys' names in 2007
More about 2007
girls
1,922,617 girls got a published name in 2007; 1 in 240,327 of them was named Calen, which outranked 38.4% of the 20,584 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #11,630Zyiah9
- #11,630Zymal9
- #11,630Zyona9
- #12,676Calen8
- #12,676Aalijah8
- #12,676Aayliah8
- #12,676Abbee8
- #13,924Aairah7
- #13,924Aaleeyah7
- #13,924Aamyah7
Tied with 1,247 names at #12,676; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,075,414 boys got a published name in 2007; 1 in 23,060 of them was named Calen, which outranked 88.3% of the 14,394 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,669Josias91
- #1,669Linus91
- #1,669Yakov91
- #1,681Calen90
- #1,681Atreyu90
- #1,681Claudio90
- #1,681Demian90
- #1,700Benedict89
- #1,700Braylin89
- #1,700Derrion89
Tied with 18 names at #1,681; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.