Callahan
#1,747 for girls in 2025, 116 births · #227 for boys in 2025, 1,566 births
Given to boys 85.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 1,566 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 6,030since 1983
Callahan 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 | #1,747 | 116 | #227 | 1,566 |
| 2024 | #2,218 | 85 | #364 | 908 |
| 2023 | #2,614 | 67 | #461 | 665 |
| 2022 | #2,425 | 75 | #519 | 571 |
| 2021 | #3,157 | 51 | #660 | 410 |
| 2020 | #3,607 | 41 | #806 | 288 |
| 2019 | #3,172 | 50 | #897 | 244 |
| 2018 | #4,076 | 35 | #1,026 | 200 |
| 2017 | #4,384 | 32 | #1,141 | 166 |
| 2016 | #4,990 | 27 | #1,484 | 115 |
| 2015 | #4,981 | 27 | #1,804 | 83 |
| 2014 | #5,993 | 21 | #1,884 | 77 |
| 2013 | #5,834 | 22 | #2,250 | 57 |
| 2012 | #5,557 | 24 | #2,594 | 47 |
| 2011 | #6,564 | 19 | #3,046 | 37 |
| 2010 | #7,513 | 16 | #2,787 | 43 |
| 2009 | #6,544 | 20 | #2,847 | 42 |
| 2008 | #6,559 | 20 | #2,879 | 41 |
| 2007 | #9,007 | 13 | #3,687 | 28 |
| 2006 | #7,142 | 17 | #3,083 | 35 |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 | #2,960 | 35 |
| 2004 | #5,377 | 23 | #2,599 | 41 |
| 2003 | #8,505 | 12 | #3,186 | 29 |
| 2002 | #6,698 | 16 | #3,259 | 27 |
| 2001 | #6,067 | 18 | #2,797 | 33 |
| 2000 | #6,208 | 17 | #2,578 | 36 |
| 1999 | #5,219 | 20 | #2,795 | 30 |
| 1998 | #6,719 | 14 | #3,017 | 26 |
| 1997 | #4,819 | 21 | #3,160 | 23 |
| 1996 | #4,739 | 21 | #2,911 | 25 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 | #5,124 | 11 |
| 1994 | #6,319 | 14 | #4,537 | 13 |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | #7,638 | 6 |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | #4,114 | 14 |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | — | |
| 1990 | — | #7,178 | 6 | |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | #5,615 | 8 |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 | #6,426 | 6 |
| 1987 | — | #3,201 | 15 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,440 | 13 | |
| 1985 | — | #6,523 | 5 | |
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| 1983 | — | #6,238 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Callahan! It came in at #6,238, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1983–1985, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Callahan is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Kansas#581 · 1 in 3,132
- Minnesota#647 · 1 in 3,999
- Wisconsin#759 · 1 in 5,385
- Michigan#981 · 1 in 7,957
- Ohio#1,052 · 1 in 9,887
Best ever in a state: #76 in Montana, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas | #581 | 5 | 1 in 3,132 |
| Minnesota | #647 | 7 | 1 in 3,999 |
| Wisconsin | #759 | 5 | 1 in 5,385 |
| Michigan | #981 | 6 | 1 in 7,957 |
| Ohio | #1,052 | 6 | 1 in 9,887 |
| North Carolina | #1,118 | 5 | 1 in 10,395 |
| Florida | #1,236 | 8 | 1 in 12,242 |
| New York | #1,579 | 6 | 1 in 16,666 |
| California | #2,284 | 6 | 1 in 37,281 |
| Texas | #2,389 | 5 | 1 in 37,043 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Callahan
- 137 spots since 2024 (#364 → #227)
- 579 spots since 2020 (#806 → #227)
- 1,577 spots since 2015 (#1,804 → #227)
- Biggest jump: 146 spots in 2021 (#806 → #660)
- Debuted 1983
- Peaked 2025 at #227 (1,566 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 2019–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,091 boys born in 2025 were named Callahan (0.09%)
- 73.1% of all boys named Callahan (4,408) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1994, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 52 | #3,201 (1987) | #5,241 |
| 1990s | 154 | #2,795 (1999) | #4,497 |
| 2000s | 347 | #2,578 (2000) | #2,988 |
| 2010s | 1,069 | #897 (2019) | #1,891 |
| 2020s | 4,408 | #227 (2025) | #506 |
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.
Callahan in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 65,630 of them was named Callahan, which outranked 73.6% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,850Zephaniah28
- #4,850Zina28
- #4,850Zyasia28
- #4,990Callahan27
- #4,990Aaminah27
- #4,990Abbi27
- #4,990Abi27
- #5,130Aitanna26
- #5,130Ajah26
- #5,130Akemi26
Tied with 139 names at #4,990; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 16,502 of them was named Callahan, which outranked 89.6% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,478Rigoberto116
- #1,478Syncere116
- #1,478Tylan116
- #1,484Callahan115
- #1,484Duane115
- #1,484Gerson115
- #1,484Hyrum115
- #1,491Cordell114
- #1,491Isa114
- #1,491Ishan114
Tied with 6 names at #1,484; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.