Callen
#6,116 for girls in 2025, 19 births · #516 for boys in 2025, 579 births
Given to boys 94.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 687 births
- Debut · boys
- 11 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 9,501since 1954
Callen 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,116 | 19 | #516 | 579 |
| 2024 | #5,443 | 23 | #479 | 643 |
| 2023 | #4,191 | 34 | #450 | 687 |
| 2022 | #5,309 | 24 | #458 | 670 |
| 2021 | #5,091 | 25 | #459 | 656 |
| 2020 | #4,757 | 27 | #534 | 527 |
| 2019 | #5,449 | 23 | #551 | 511 |
| 2018 | #6,010 | 20 | #573 | 482 |
| 2017 | #7,840 | 14 | #566 | 480 |
| 2016 | #7,602 | 15 | #536 | 544 |
| 2015 | #7,613 | 15 | #520 | 554 |
| 2014 | #6,713 | 18 | #503 | 562 |
| 2013 | #9,036 | 12 | #592 | 428 |
| 2012 | #9,109 | 12 | #570 | 452 |
| 2011 | #8,614 | 13 | #593 | 421 |
| 2010 | #8,271 | 14 | #698 | 334 |
| 2009 | #9,975 | 11 | #1,638 | 96 |
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 | #1,932 | 74 |
| 2007 | #10,129 | 11 | #1,861 | 77 |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | #2,477 | 49 |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 | #2,265 | 52 |
| 2004 | #9,892 | 10 | #2,788 | 37 |
| 2003 | #11,325 | 8 | #2,428 | 43 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #2,632 | 36 |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 | #2,931 | 31 |
| 2000 | #6,808 | 15 | #3,150 | 27 |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 | #2,939 | 28 |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 | #2,274 | 39 |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 | #2,823 | 27 |
| 1996 | #7,574 | 11 | #2,679 | 28 |
| 1995 | #4,348 | 23 | #2,762 | 26 |
| 1994 | #3,892 | 27 | #3,751 | 17 |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 | #3,501 | 18 |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 | #2,834 | 24 |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 | #2,989 | 21 |
| 1990 | #7,880 | 10 | #3,309 | 18 |
| 1989 | #5,545 | 15 | #3,809 | 14 |
| 1988 | #5,598 | 14 | #2,509 | 23 |
| 1987 | #6,788 | 10 | #2,641 | 20 |
| 1986 | #5,757 | 12 | #2,510 | 21 |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | #3,805 | 11 |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 | #3,925 | 10 |
| 1983 | #6,705 | 9 | #4,141 | 9 |
| 1982 | — | #6,385 | 5 | |
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| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
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| 1975 | — | #4,797 | 6 | |
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| 1966 | — | #3,948 | 5 | |
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| 1963 | — | #3,044 | 8 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,640 | 6 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,097 | 8 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,685 | 10 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,037 | 8 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,944 | 5 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,993 | 5 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,969 | 8 | |
| 1955 | — | #3,886 | 5 | |
| 1954 | — | #2,449 | 11 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Callen! It came in at #2,449, and was given to 11 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1964–1974, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Callen is popular in 2013
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Iowa#309 · 1 in 1,388
- Nebraska#311 · 1 in 1,249
- Pennsylvania#338 · 1 in 1,992
- Indiana#360 · 1 in 1,876
- Wisconsin#380 · 1 in 2,086
Best ever in a state: #119 in South Dakota, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | #309 | 11 | 1 in 1,388 |
| Nebraska | #311 | 8 | 1 in 1,249 |
| Pennsylvania | #338 | 30 | 1 in 1,992 |
| Indiana | #360 | 19 | 1 in 1,876 |
| Wisconsin | #380 | 13 | 1 in 2,086 |
| Oklahoma | #389 | 12 | 1 in 1,761 |
| Massachusetts | #390 | 11 | 1 in 2,669 |
| Minnesota | #397 | 13 | 1 in 2,155 |
| South Carolina | #426 | 9 | 1 in 2,357 |
| Louisiana | #438 | 11 | 1 in 2,246 |
| Connecticut | #449 | 5 | 1 in 2,860 |
| Alabama | #452 | 9 | 1 in 2,486 |
| Oregon | #459 | 7 | 1 in 2,569 |
| Missouri | #470 | 12 | 1 in 2,646 |
| Virginia | #494 | 13 | 1 in 3,209 |
| Ohio | #495 | 18 | 1 in 3,315 |
| North Carolina | #512 | 15 | 1 in 3,361 |
| Kentucky | #588 | 5 | 1 in 4,441 |
| Washington | #595 | 10 | 1 in 3,567 |
| Utah | #603 | 6 | 1 in 3,600 |
| Maryland | #606 | 7 | 1 in 3,926 |
| New Jersey | #634 | 9 | 1 in 4,614 |
| Illinois | #656 | 14 | 1 in 4,708 |
| Michigan | #659 | 10 | 1 in 4,799 |
| Tennessee | #688 | 7 | 1 in 5,081 |
| Florida | #700 | 18 | 1 in 5,189 |
| Arizona | #705 | 7 | 1 in 5,256 |
| Texas | #726 | 31 | 1 in 5,815 |
| Colorado | #745 | 5 | 1 in 5,365 |
| California | #838 | 28 | 1 in 8,108 |
| Georgia | #875 | 8 | 1 in 6,711 |
| New York | #1,059 | 11 | 1 in 9,317 |
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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 Callen
- 37 spots since 2024 (#479 → #516)
- 18 spots since 2020 (#534 → #516)
- 4 spots since 2015 (#520 → #516)
- Biggest jump: 940 spots in 2010 (#1,638 → #698)
- Biggest drop: 37 spots in 2025 (#479 → #516)
- Debuted 1954
- Peaked 2023 at #450 (687 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 16 yrs · run 2010–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,490 boys born in 2023 were named Callen (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,950 boys born in 2025 (0.03%)
- 50.2% of all boys named Callen (4,768) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1994, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 42 | #2,449 (1954) | #3,380 |
| 1960s | 37 | #2,685 (1960) | #3,283 |
| 1970s | 11 | #4,797 (1975) | #5,321 |
| 1980s | 113 | #2,509 (1988) | #3,716 |
| 1990s | 246 | #2,274 (1998) | #2,986 |
| 2000s | 522 | #1,638 (2009) | #2,410 |
| 2010s | 4,768 | #503 (2014) | #570 |
| 2020s | 3,762 | #450 (2023) | #483 |
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.
Callen in 2013
Top girls' names in 2013
Top boys' names in 2013
More about 2013
girls
1,754,746 girls got a published name in 2013; 1 in 146,229 of them was named Callen, which outranked 53.1% of the 19,279 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,580Zhoe13
- #8,580Zoeigh13
- #8,580Zona13
- #9,036Callen12
- #9,036Aaira12
- #9,036Aalaiyah12
- #9,036Aarionna12
- #9,612Aalijah11
- #9,612Aaron11
- #9,612Abrey11
Tied with 575 names at #9,036; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,891,581 boys got a published name in 2013; 1 in 4,420 of them was named Callen, which outranked 95.8% of the 14,070 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).