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 | ||
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| 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.
Where Callum is popular in 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Connecticut#406 · 1 in 2,693
- Massachusetts#459 · 1 in 3,558
- Colorado#558 · 1 in 3,710
- Oregon#606 · 1 in 4,027
- Tennessee#633 · 1 in 4,715
Best ever in a state: #22 in Vermont, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut | #406 | 6 | 1 in 2,693 |
| Massachusetts | #459 | 9 | 1 in 3,558 |
| Colorado | #558 | 8 | 1 in 3,710 |
| Oregon | #606 | 5 | 1 in 4,027 |
| Tennessee | #633 | 8 | 1 in 4,715 |
| Washington | #660 | 8 | 1 in 4,655 |
| Wisconsin | #726 | 5 | 1 in 5,871 |
| New York | #760 | 17 | 1 in 6,419 |
| Illinois | #772 | 12 | 1 in 6,230 |
| California | #848 | 27 | 1 in 9,414 |
| Pennsylvania | #913 | 7 | 1 in 9,124 |
| North Carolina | #978 | 6 | 1 in 9,286 |
| Michigan | #1,080 | 5 | 1 in 10,281 |
| Texas | #1,116 | 15 | 1 in 12,613 |
| Georgia | #1,119 | 6 | 1 in 10,198 |
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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 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 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 9,952 of them was named Callum, which outranked 93.3% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).