Calum
#799 for boys in 2025, 313 births
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 313 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,506since 1978
Calum over time
Rank among boys' names. Calum has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #799 | 313 |
| 2024 | #904 | 259 |
| 2023 | #887 | 262 |
| 2022 | #817 | 303 |
| 2021 | #837 | 284 |
| 2020 | #928 | 240 |
| 2019 | #919 | 238 |
| 2018 | #1,018 | 202 |
| 2017 | #1,293 | 140 |
| 2016 | #1,694 | 92 |
| 2015 | #1,910 | 76 |
| 2014 | #2,461 | 51 |
| 2013 | #2,461 | 50 |
| 2012 | #2,517 | 49 |
| 2011 | #1,988 | 69 |
| 2010 | #2,287 | 56 |
| 2009 | #2,119 | 64 |
| 2008 | #2,140 | 63 |
| 2007 | #2,117 | 64 |
| 2006 | #2,698 | 43 |
| 2005 | #2,325 | 50 |
| 2004 | #2,643 | 40 |
| 2003 | #2,392 | 44 |
| 2002 | #2,337 | 44 |
| 2001 | #2,117 | 49 |
| 2000 | #2,621 | 35 |
| 1999 | #2,722 | 31 |
| 1998 | #1,987 | 48 |
| 1997 | #2,024 | 44 |
| 1996 | #2,017 | 43 |
| 1995 | #2,685 | 27 |
| 1994 | #2,444 | 31 |
| 1993 | #3,368 | 19 |
| 1992 | #3,920 | 15 |
| 1991 | #4,231 | 13 |
| 1990 | #3,467 | 17 |
| 1989 | #5,165 | 9 |
| 1988 | #6,426 | 6 |
| 1987 | #5,459 | 7 |
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| 1985 | #6,523 | 5 |
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| 1981 | #5,468 | 6 |
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| 1978 | #5,772 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Calum! It came in at #5,772, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1978–1980, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Calum is popular in 2023
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Hampshire#202 · 1 in 719
- Iowa#379 · 1 in 1,483
- Utah#379 · 1 in 1,531
- Minnesota#512 · 1 in 2,400
- Indiana#571 · 1 in 2,873
Best ever in a state: #202 in New Hampshire, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Hampshire | #202 | 6 | 1 in 719 |
| Iowa | #379 | 9 | 1 in 1,483 |
| Utah | #379 | 12 | 1 in 1,531 |
| Minnesota | #512 | 10 | 1 in 2,400 |
| Indiana | #571 | 11 | 1 in 2,873 |
| Michigan | #596 | 12 | 1 in 3,347 |
| Wisconsin | #628 | 7 | 1 in 3,363 |
| Colorado | #662 | 7 | 1 in 3,545 |
| Missouri | #669 | 7 | 1 in 3,835 |
| Ohio | #669 | 13 | 1 in 4,037 |
| Kentucky | #673 | 5 | 1 in 3,962 |
| Washington | #682 | 9 | 1 in 3,517 |
| Massachusetts | #767 | 5 | 1 in 5,459 |
| Tennessee | #829 | 7 | 1 in 5,105 |
| Pennsylvania | #848 | 9 | 1 in 5,780 |
| Virginia | #848 | 7 | 1 in 5,321 |
| New Jersey | #915 | 6 | 1 in 6,728 |
| Arizona | #920 | 5 | 1 in 6,500 |
| North Carolina | #1,029 | 7 | 1 in 7,246 |
| California | #1,037 | 20 | 1 in 8,994 |
| Texas | #1,115 | 19 | 1 in 9,337 |
| Illinois | #1,146 | 6 | 1 in 8,360 |
| Florida | #1,349 | 8 | 1 in 11,778 |
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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 Calum
- 105 spots since 2024 (#904 → #799)
- 129 spots since 2020 (#928 → #799)
- 1,111 spots since 2015 (#1,910 → #799)
- Biggest jump: 105 spots in 2025 (#904 → #799)
- Biggest drop: 70 spots in 2023 (#817 → #887)
- Debuted 1978
- Peaked 2025 at #799 (313 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 2019–2025
- Highest: 1 in 5,457 boys born in 2025 were named Calum (0.02%)
- 47.4% of all boys named Calum (1,661) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #5,772 (1978) | #5,772 |
| 1980s | 33 | #5,165 (1989) | #5,808 |
| 1990s | 288 | #1,987 (1998) | #2,887 |
| 2000s | 496 | #2,117 (2007) | #2,351 |
| 2010s | 1,023 | #919 (2019) | #1,855 |
| 2020s | 1,661 | #799 (2025) | #862 |
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.
Calum in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 6,529 of them was named Calum, which outranked 93.8% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).