Callen

Where Callen comes from

Variant of Callan.
— Wiktionary's entry for Callen
Along the way
  1. 1954
    First appearance
    #2,449 among boys, 11 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1995
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 2023
    Peak, #450
    687 babies named Callen — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes

No widely known Callen turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.