Calen
- Last seen for girls in 2022 at #15,306
- #3,314 for boys in 2025, 35 births
- Given to boys 91.7% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1987 · 67 births
- Debut · boys
- 12 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,494since 1977
Calen over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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 | — | #3,314 | 35 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,750 | 47 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,575 | 51 | |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #2,589 | 52 |
| 2021 | — | #2,862 | 43 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,759 | 44 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,582 | 50 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,300 | 58 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,840 | 42 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,110 | 66 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,212 | 61 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,044 | 69 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,811 | 79 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,668 | 92 | |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #1,533 | 103 |
| 2010 | — | #1,626 | 96 | |
| 2009 | #12,429 | 8 | #2,035 | 68 |
| 2008 | #10,084 | 11 | #1,932 | 74 |
| 2007 | #12,676 | 8 | #1,681 | 90 |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | #1,790 | 77 |
| 2005 | #8,883 | 12 | #2,129 | 57 |
| 2004 | #10,690 | 9 | #2,051 | 58 |
| 2003 | #9,048 | 11 | #2,238 | 48 |
| 2002 | #8,837 | 11 | #1,916 | 58 |
| 2001 | #7,317 | 14 | #1,841 | 60 |
| 2000 | #8,027 | 12 | #1,799 | 60 |
| 1999 | #8,805 | 10 | #2,098 | 45 |
| 1998 | #10,122 | 8 | #1,987 | 48 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | #2,060 | 43 |
| 1996 | #7,574 | 11 | #1,705 | 55 |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 | #1,623 | 56 |
| 1994 | #7,604 | 11 | #1,643 | 55 |
| 1993 | #8,052 | 10 | #1,824 | 46 |
| 1992 | #8,734 | 9 | #2,174 | 35 |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 | #1,983 | 38 |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 | #2,128 | 34 |
| 1989 | — | #1,550 | 52 | |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 | #1,525 | 48 |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | #1,175 | 67 |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | #1,535 | 43 |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | #1,290 | 55 |
| 1984 | — | #1,796 | 31 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,748 | 32 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,596 | 18 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,030 | 14 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,430 | 12 | |
| 1979 | — | #4,068 | 9 | |
| 1978 | — | #4,157 | 8 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,203 | 12 | |
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First appearance
1977
The first year at least five boys were named Calen! It came in at #3,203, and was given to 12 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1977–1980, when fewer than 13 boys a year got the name.
Where Calen is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Calen in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Calen
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 555 spots since 2020 (#2,759 → #3,314)
Rise & fade · boys
10 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1977
- Peaked 1987 at #1,175 (67 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 18,439
- Highest: 1 in 18,439 boys born in 2011 were named Calen (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 48,802 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,175 in 1987, was only 1 in 27,865 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 28.7% of all boys named Calen (716) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 29 | #3,203 (1977) | #3,809 |
| 1980s | 372 | #1,175 (1987) | #1,968 |
| 1990s | 455 | #1,623 (1995) | #1,923 |
| 2000s | 650 | #1,681 (2007) | #1,941 |
| 2010s | 716 | #1,533 (2011) | #2,073 |
| 2020s | 272 | #2,575 (2023) | #2,808 |
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.
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