Callen
#6,116 for girls in 2025, 19 births · #516 for boys in 2025, 579 births
Given to boys 94.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 687 births
- Debut · boys
- 11 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 9,501since 1954
Callen 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,116 | 19 | #516 | 579 |
| 2024 | #5,443 | 23 | #479 | 643 |
| 2023 | #4,191 | 34 | #450 | 687 |
| 2022 | #5,309 | 24 | #458 | 670 |
| 2021 | #5,091 | 25 | #459 | 656 |
| 2020 | #4,757 | 27 | #534 | 527 |
| 2019 | #5,449 | 23 | #551 | 511 |
| 2018 | #6,010 | 20 | #573 | 482 |
| 2017 | #7,840 | 14 | #566 | 480 |
| 2016 | #7,602 | 15 | #536 | 544 |
| 2015 | #7,613 | 15 | #520 | 554 |
| 2014 | #6,713 | 18 | #503 | 562 |
| 2013 | #9,036 | 12 | #592 | 428 |
| 2012 | #9,109 | 12 | #570 | 452 |
| 2011 | #8,614 | 13 | #593 | 421 |
| 2010 | #8,271 | 14 | #698 | 334 |
| 2009 | #9,975 | 11 | #1,638 | 96 |
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 | #1,932 | 74 |
| 2007 | #10,129 | 11 | #1,861 | 77 |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | #2,477 | 49 |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 | #2,265 | 52 |
| 2004 | #9,892 | 10 | #2,788 | 37 |
| 2003 | #11,325 | 8 | #2,428 | 43 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #2,632 | 36 |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 | #2,931 | 31 |
| 2000 | #6,808 | 15 | #3,150 | 27 |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 | #2,939 | 28 |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 | #2,274 | 39 |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 | #2,823 | 27 |
| 1996 | #7,574 | 11 | #2,679 | 28 |
| 1995 | #4,348 | 23 | #2,762 | 26 |
| 1994 | #3,892 | 27 | #3,751 | 17 |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 | #3,501 | 18 |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 | #2,834 | 24 |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 | #2,989 | 21 |
| 1990 | #7,880 | 10 | #3,309 | 18 |
| 1989 | #5,545 | 15 | #3,809 | 14 |
| 1988 | #5,598 | 14 | #2,509 | 23 |
| 1987 | #6,788 | 10 | #2,641 | 20 |
| 1986 | #5,757 | 12 | #2,510 | 21 |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | #3,805 | 11 |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 | #3,925 | 10 |
| 1983 | #6,705 | 9 | #4,141 | 9 |
| 1982 | — | #6,385 | 5 | |
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| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
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| 1975 | — | #4,797 | 6 | |
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| 1966 | — | #3,948 | 5 | |
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| 1963 | — | #3,044 | 8 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,640 | 6 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,097 | 8 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,685 | 10 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,037 | 8 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,944 | 5 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,993 | 5 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,969 | 8 | |
| 1955 | — | #3,886 | 5 | |
| 1954 | — | #2,449 | 11 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Callen! It came in at #2,449, and was given to 11 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1964–1974, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Callen
- 37 spots since 2024 (#479 → #516)
- 18 spots since 2020 (#534 → #516)
- 4 spots since 2015 (#520 → #516)
- Biggest jump: 940 spots in 2010 (#1,638 → #698)
- Biggest drop: 37 spots in 2025 (#479 → #516)
- Debuted 1954
- Peaked 2023 at #450 (687 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 16 yrs · run 2010–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,490 boys born in 2023 were named Callen (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,950 boys born in 2025 (0.03%)
- 50.2% of all boys named Callen (4,768) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1994, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 42 | #2,449 (1954) | #3,380 |
| 1960s | 37 | #2,685 (1960) | #3,283 |
| 1970s | 11 | #4,797 (1975) | #5,321 |
| 1980s | 113 | #2,509 (1988) | #3,716 |
| 1990s | 246 | #2,274 (1998) | #2,986 |
| 2000s | 522 | #1,638 (2009) | #2,410 |
| 2010s | 4,768 | #503 (2014) | #570 |
| 2020s | 3,762 | #450 (2023) | #483 |
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.
Callen in 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 70,443 of them was named Callen, which outranked 69.3% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,300Zeena24
- #5,300Zivah24
- #5,300Zoei24
- #5,443Callen23
- #5,443Aara23
- #5,443Aaria23
- #5,443Abigayle23
- #5,615Abagail22
- #5,615Abbey22
- #5,615Abella22
Tied with 171 names at #5,443; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 2,679 of them was named Callen, which outranked 96.6% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).