Callum

#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births · #118 for boys in 2025, 2,995 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time

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Peak · boys
2025 · 2,995 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
16,051
since 1983

Callum over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Callum has never cracked the top 100 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202015boysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#10,9178#1182,995
2024#15,2935#1582,266
2023#8,98911#2211,645
2022#13,5926#2491,417
2021#11,1468#2731,264
2020#336968
2019#449671
2018#558493
2017#608433
2016#706349
2015#685369
2014#732327
2013#782287
2012#807275
2011#846253
2010#845250
2009#879240
2008#974205
2007#1,088168
2006#1,185142
2005#1,411104
2004#1,374105
2003#1,269112
2002#1,51482
2001#1,42987
2000#1,51479
1999#1,53173
1998#1,74158
1997#1,55066
1996#1,50067
1995#1,84147
1994#2,08239
1993#3,36819
1992#2,83424
1991#3,46217
1990#4,67311
1989#5,6158
1988#6,4266
1987#5,4597
1986#5,3327
1985#6,5235
1984#6,3155
1983#5,4846
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First appearance
1983

The first year at least five boys were named Callum! It came in at #5,484, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1983–1988, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.

See more about Callum
Momentum · boys
Rising
  • 40 spots since 2024 (#158#118)
  • 218 spots since 2020 (#336#118)
  • 567 spots since 2015 (#685#118)
  • Biggest jump: 114 spots in 2008 (#1,088#974)
  • Biggest drop: 21 spots in 2016 (#685#706)
Rise & fade · boys
42 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1983
  • Peaked 2025 at #118 (2,995 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 18 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 18 yrs · run 2008–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 570
  • Highest: 1 in 570 boys born in 2025 were named Callum (0.18%)
Era · boys
The 2020s
  • 65.8% of all boys named Callum (10,555) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s44#5,332 (1986)#5,879
1990s421#1,500 (1996)#2,458
2000s1,324#879 (2009)#1,264
2010s3,707#449 (2019)#702
2020s10,555#118 (2025)#226

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.

Callum in 2015

boys
#685
369 births · 1 in 5,194 boys

Top boys' names in 2015

  1. #1Noah19,680
  2. #2Liam18,410
  3. #3Mason16,675
  4. #4Jacob16,005
  5. #5William15,950
  6. #6Ethan15,103
  7. #7James14,865
  8. #8Alexander14,584
  9. #9Michael14,504
  10. #10Benjamin13,732
  11. #685Callum369
More about 2015

boys

1,916,743 boys got a published name in 2015; 1 in 5,194 of them was named Callum, which outranked 95.1% of the 14,059 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Callum
  1. #681Toby371
  2. #683Alessandro370
  3. #683Casen370
  4. #685Callum369
  5. #686Kamari367
  6. #687Callan365
  7. #687Elian365
Biggest movers since 2014
Risers
  1. 1,348Riaan#2,277#929
  2. 397Huxley#1,355#958
  3. 355Wilder#1,313#958
  4. 284Jaziel#1,218#934
  5. 268Canaan#1,074#806
Fallers
  1. 676Arnav#891#1,567
  2. 262Jayse#906#1,168
  3. 239Neymar#551#790
  4. 228Rylee#877#1,105
  5. 204Johnathon#915#1,119

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2015