Callan
#2,607 for girls in 2025, 66 births · #190 for boys in 2025, 1,917 births
Given to boys 88.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 1,917 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 11,164since 1957
Callan 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 | #2,607 | 66 | #190 | 1,917 |
| 2024 | #3,047 | 53 | #242 | 1,455 |
| 2023 | #2,823 | 60 | #339 | 983 |
| 2022 | #3,470 | 45 | #354 | 930 |
| 2021 | #3,112 | 52 | #373 | 868 |
| 2020 | #4,548 | 29 | #434 | 686 |
| 2019 | #5,163 | 25 | #525 | 542 |
| 2018 | #3,438 | 45 | #589 | 465 |
| 2017 | #4,477 | 31 | #684 | 365 |
| 2016 | #4,250 | 34 | #735 | 332 |
| 2015 | #4,725 | 29 | #687 | 365 |
| 2014 | #4,768 | 29 | #668 | 384 |
| 2013 | #4,156 | 35 | #787 | 286 |
| 2012 | #4,601 | 31 | #830 | 263 |
| 2011 | #3,916 | 38 | #886 | 234 |
| 2010 | #5,414 | 25 | #1,179 | 153 |
| 2009 | #5,891 | 23 | #1,825 | 81 |
| 2008 | #4,448 | 34 | #1,792 | 83 |
| 2007 | #4,567 | 32 | #1,875 | 76 |
| 2006 | #5,709 | 23 | #2,449 | 50 |
| 2005 | #6,528 | 18 | #2,653 | 41 |
| 2004 | #4,707 | 28 | #2,164 | 54 |
| 2003 | #4,418 | 29 | #2,470 | 42 |
| 2002 | #4,621 | 26 | #2,337 | 44 |
| 2001 | #4,447 | 27 | #2,346 | 42 |
| 2000 | #3,886 | 32 | #2,993 | 29 |
| 1999 | #4,576 | 24 | #2,162 | 43 |
| 1998 | #3,573 | 33 | #2,349 | 37 |
| 1997 | #3,365 | 34 | #2,126 | 41 |
| 1996 | #3,028 | 39 | #3,549 | 19 |
| 1995 | #2,845 | 42 | #4,052 | 15 |
| 1994 | #2,935 | 40 | #3,751 | 17 |
| 1993 | #2,725 | 44 | #3,141 | 21 |
| 1992 | #3,218 | 35 | #3,105 | 21 |
| 1991 | #2,886 | 40 | #3,462 | 17 |
| 1990 | #2,799 | 41 | #2,952 | 21 |
| 1989 | #3,477 | 29 | #2,784 | 22 |
| 1988 | #2,251 | 50 | #2,599 | 22 |
| 1987 | #2,398 | 43 | #4,239 | 10 |
| 1986 | #2,779 | 34 | #2,360 | 23 |
| 1985 | #3,983 | 20 | #5,785 | 6 |
| 1984 | #5,899 | 11 | #3,925 | 10 |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 | #4,499 | 8 |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 | #3,482 | 12 |
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| 1975 | — | #4,797 | 6 | |
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| 1973 | — | #4,054 | 7 | |
| 1972 | — | #4,441 | 6 | |
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| 1963 | — | #4,048 | 5 | |
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| 1957 | — | #3,993 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Callan! It came in at #3,993, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1957–1971, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Callan is popular in 2015
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Nebraska#288 · 1 in 1,123
- Wisconsin#316 · 1 in 1,512
- Massachusetts#323 · 1 in 1,971
- Minnesota#353 · 1 in 1,774
- Iowa#416 · 1 in 1,972
Best ever in a state: #64 in Wyoming, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nebraska | #288 | 9 | 1 in 1,123 |
| Wisconsin | #316 | 18 | 1 in 1,512 |
| Massachusetts | #323 | 15 | 1 in 1,971 |
| Minnesota | #353 | 16 | 1 in 1,774 |
| Iowa | #416 | 8 | 1 in 1,972 |
| Alabama | #446 | 10 | 1 in 2,318 |
| Connecticut | #447 | 5 | 1 in 2,881 |
| Georgia | #473 | 20 | 1 in 2,747 |
| Maryland | #493 | 10 | 1 in 2,781 |
| Missouri | #521 | 10 | 1 in 3,160 |
| Ohio | #563 | 16 | 1 in 3,768 |
| Oklahoma | #571 | 7 | 1 in 2,967 |
| Kansas | #581 | 5 | 1 in 3,166 |
| Colorado | #588 | 8 | 1 in 3,460 |
| Arizona | #624 | 9 | 1 in 4,107 |
| Indiana | #624 | 9 | 1 in 4,017 |
| Michigan | #670 | 11 | 1 in 4,342 |
| Illinois | #671 | 14 | 1 in 4,742 |
| Washington | #697 | 8 | 1 in 4,597 |
| Pennsylvania | #708 | 11 | 1 in 5,439 |
| New Jersey | #712 | 8 | 1 in 5,199 |
| Texas | #762 | 31 | 1 in 6,067 |
| New York | #768 | 18 | 1 in 5,714 |
| Florida | #801 | 16 | 1 in 6,147 |
| Virginia | #885 | 6 | 1 in 7,070 |
| California | #934 | 24 | 1 in 9,429 |
| North Carolina | #1,120 | 5 | 1 in 10,402 |
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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 Callan
- 52 spots since 2024 (#242 → #190)
- 244 spots since 2020 (#434 → #190)
- 497 spots since 2015 (#687 → #190)
- Biggest jump: 293 spots in 2011 (#1,179 → #886)
- Biggest drop: 48 spots in 2016 (#687 → #735)
- Debuted 1957
- Peaked 2025 at #190 (1,917 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 15 yrs · run 2011–2025
- Highest: 1 in 891 boys born in 2025 were named Callan (0.11%)
- 61.3% of all boys named Callan (6,839) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2000, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #3,993 (1957) | #3,993 |
| 1960s | 5 | #4,048 (1963) | #4,048 |
| 1970s | 19 | #4,054 (1973) | #4,431 |
| 1980s | 113 | #2,360 (1986) | #3,709 |
| 1990s | 252 | #2,126 (1997) | #3,065 |
| 2000s | 542 | #1,792 (2008) | #2,290 |
| 2010s | 3,389 | #525 (2019) | #757 |
| 2020s | 6,839 | #190 (2025) | #322 |
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.
Callan in 2015
Top girls' names in 2015
Top boys' names in 2015
More about 2015
girls
1,785,098 girls got a published name in 2015; 1 in 61,555 of them was named Callan, which outranked 75.3% of the 19,130 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,584Zanaya30
- #4,584Zeinab30
- #4,584Zyonna30
- #4,725Callan29
- #4,725Abrish29
- #4,725Acelyn29
- #4,725Adna29
- #4,853Adali28
- #4,853Aissatou28
- #4,853Ajla28
Tied with 127 names at #4,725; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,916,743 boys got a published name in 2015; 1 in 5,251 of them was named Callan, 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).
- #683Casen370
- #685Callum369
- #686Kamari367
- #687Callan365
- #687Elian365
- #687Langston365
- #687Melvin365
- #694Branson363
- #695Flynn362
- #695Kyree362
Tied with 6 names at #687; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.