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
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 2,995 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 16,051since 1983
Callum over time
Rank among boys' names. Callum has never cracked the top 100 here.
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 | #10,917 | 8 | #118 | 2,995 |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | #158 | 2,266 |
| 2023 | #8,989 | 11 | #221 | 1,645 |
| 2022 | #13,592 | 6 | #249 | 1,417 |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 | #273 | 1,264 |
| 2020 | — | #336 | 968 | |
| 2019 | — | #449 | 671 | |
| 2018 | — | #558 | 493 | |
| 2017 | — | #608 | 433 | |
| 2016 | — | #706 | 349 | |
| 2015 | — | #685 | 369 | |
| 2014 | — | #732 | 327 | |
| 2013 | — | #782 | 287 | |
| 2012 | — | #807 | 275 | |
| 2011 | — | #846 | 253 | |
| 2010 | — | #845 | 250 | |
| 2009 | — | #879 | 240 | |
| 2008 | — | #974 | 205 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,088 | 168 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,185 | 142 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,411 | 104 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,374 | 105 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,269 | 112 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,514 | 82 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,429 | 87 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,514 | 79 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,531 | 73 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,741 | 58 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,550 | 66 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,500 | 67 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,841 | 47 | |
| 1994 | — | #2,082 | 39 | |
| 1993 | — | #3,368 | 19 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,834 | 24 | |
| 1991 | — | #3,462 | 17 | |
| 1990 | — | #4,673 | 11 | |
| 1989 | — | #5,615 | 8 | |
| 1988 | — | #6,426 | 6 | |
| 1987 | — | #5,459 | 7 | |
| 1986 | — | #5,332 | 7 | |
| 1985 | — | #6,523 | 5 | |
| 1984 | — | #6,315 | 5 | |
| 1983 | — | #5,484 | 6 | |
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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
- 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)
- Debuted 1983
- Peaked 2025 at #118 (2,995 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 18 yrs · run 2008–2025
- Highest: 1 in 570 boys born in 2025 were named Callum (0.18%)
- 65.8% of all boys named Callum (10,555) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 44 | #5,332 (1986) | #5,879 |
| 1990s | 421 | #1,500 (1996) | #2,458 |
| 2000s | 1,324 | #879 (2009) | #1,264 |
| 2010s | 3,707 | #449 (2019) | #702 |
| 2020s | 10,555 | #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 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 273,355 of them was named Callum, which outranked 23.5% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #12,243Zylia7
- #12,243Zyliah7
- #12,243Zyniah7
- #13,592Callum6
- #13,592Aadhyareddy6
- #13,592Aagna6
- #13,592Aaiza6
- #15,306Aabha5
- #15,306Aadhvi5
- #15,306Aailani5
Tied with 1,713 names at #13,592; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 1,232 of them was named Callum, which outranked 98.3% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.