Callan
#2,607 for girls in 2025, 66 births · #190 for boys in 2025, 1,917 births
Given to boys 88.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 1,917 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 11,164since 1957
Callan 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 | #2,607 | 66 | #190 | 1,917 |
| 2024 | #3,047 | 53 | #242 | 1,455 |
| 2023 | #2,823 | 60 | #339 | 983 |
| 2022 | #3,470 | 45 | #354 | 930 |
| 2021 | #3,112 | 52 | #373 | 868 |
| 2020 | #4,548 | 29 | #434 | 686 |
| 2019 | #5,163 | 25 | #525 | 542 |
| 2018 | #3,438 | 45 | #589 | 465 |
| 2017 | #4,477 | 31 | #684 | 365 |
| 2016 | #4,250 | 34 | #735 | 332 |
| 2015 | #4,725 | 29 | #687 | 365 |
| 2014 | #4,768 | 29 | #668 | 384 |
| 2013 | #4,156 | 35 | #787 | 286 |
| 2012 | #4,601 | 31 | #830 | 263 |
| 2011 | #3,916 | 38 | #886 | 234 |
| 2010 | #5,414 | 25 | #1,179 | 153 |
| 2009 | #5,891 | 23 | #1,825 | 81 |
| 2008 | #4,448 | 34 | #1,792 | 83 |
| 2007 | #4,567 | 32 | #1,875 | 76 |
| 2006 | #5,709 | 23 | #2,449 | 50 |
| 2005 | #6,528 | 18 | #2,653 | 41 |
| 2004 | #4,707 | 28 | #2,164 | 54 |
| 2003 | #4,418 | 29 | #2,470 | 42 |
| 2002 | #4,621 | 26 | #2,337 | 44 |
| 2001 | #4,447 | 27 | #2,346 | 42 |
| 2000 | #3,886 | 32 | #2,993 | 29 |
| 1999 | #4,576 | 24 | #2,162 | 43 |
| 1998 | #3,573 | 33 | #2,349 | 37 |
| 1997 | #3,365 | 34 | #2,126 | 41 |
| 1996 | #3,028 | 39 | #3,549 | 19 |
| 1995 | #2,845 | 42 | #4,052 | 15 |
| 1994 | #2,935 | 40 | #3,751 | 17 |
| 1993 | #2,725 | 44 | #3,141 | 21 |
| 1992 | #3,218 | 35 | #3,105 | 21 |
| 1991 | #2,886 | 40 | #3,462 | 17 |
| 1990 | #2,799 | 41 | #2,952 | 21 |
| 1989 | #3,477 | 29 | #2,784 | 22 |
| 1988 | #2,251 | 50 | #2,599 | 22 |
| 1987 | #2,398 | 43 | #4,239 | 10 |
| 1986 | #2,779 | 34 | #2,360 | 23 |
| 1985 | #3,983 | 20 | #5,785 | 6 |
| 1984 | #5,899 | 11 | #3,925 | 10 |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 | #4,499 | 8 |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 | #3,482 | 12 |
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| 1975 | — | #4,797 | 6 | |
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| 1973 | — | #4,054 | 7 | |
| 1972 | — | #4,441 | 6 | |
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| 1957 | — | #3,993 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Callan! It came in at #3,993, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1957–1971, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Callan
- 52 spots since 2024 (#242 → #190)
- 244 spots since 2020 (#434 → #190)
- 497 spots since 2015 (#687 → #190)
- Biggest jump: 293 spots in 2011 (#1,179 → #886)
- Biggest drop: 48 spots in 2016 (#687 → #735)
- Debuted 1957
- Peaked 2025 at #190 (1,917 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 15 yrs · run 2011–2025
- Highest: 1 in 891 boys born in 2025 were named Callan (0.11%)
- 61.3% of all boys named Callan (6,839) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2000, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #3,993 (1957) | #3,993 |
| 1960s | 5 | #4,048 (1963) | #4,048 |
| 1970s | 19 | #4,054 (1973) | #4,431 |
| 1980s | 113 | #2,360 (1986) | #3,709 |
| 1990s | 252 | #2,126 (1997) | #3,065 |
| 2000s | 542 | #1,792 (2008) | #2,290 |
| 2010s | 3,389 | #525 (2019) | #757 |
| 2020s | 6,839 | #190 (2025) | #322 |
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.
Callan in 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
Top boys' names in 2009
More about 2009
girls
1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 79,875 of them was named Callan, which outranked 70.8% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,709Yudith24
- #5,709Yuritza24
- #5,709Zamiah24
- #5,891Callan23
- #5,891Abbygayle23
- #5,891Adali23
- #5,891Adlee23
- #6,091Aamiyah22
- #6,091Aayla22
- #6,091Abegail22
Tied with 199 names at #5,891; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,983,573 boys got a published name in 2009; 1 in 24,489 of them was named Callan, which outranked 87.4% of the 14,540 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,809Tysen82
- #1,809Yosgart82
- #1,809Zayvion82
- #1,825Callan81
- #1,825Abdullahi81
- #1,825Amaury81
- #1,825Boaz81
- #1,839Akiva80
- #1,839Anirudh80
- #1,839Apollo80
Tied with 13 names at #1,825; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.