Calan
Calan was given to 34 boys in 2025, #3,390 among boys’ names; 994 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Calan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Calan?
#3,390 among boys’ names, 2025
Calan rose from #3,799 in 2015 to #3,390 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 14.6 to 19.9 per million.
51 babies in 2018, the peak
Calan peaked in 2018, when 51 boys were given it, #2,512 among boys’ names. The 34 births of 2025 are 67% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #3,390 | 19.9 |
| 2024 | 29 | #3,810 | 16.8 |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,124 | 22.8 |
| 2022 | 47 | #2,757 | 26.9 |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,132 | 21.7 |
| 2020 | 42 | #2,852 | 24.3 |
| 2019 | 32 | #3,500 | 17.8 |
| 2018 | 51 | #2,512 | 28.1 |
| 2017 | 35 | #3,253 | 18.9 |
| 2016 | 35 | #3,239 | 18.4 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #3,799 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 19 | #4,901 | 9.9 |
| 2013 | 33 | #3,274 | 17.4 |
| 2012 | 26 | #3,906 | 13.7 |
| 2011 | 34 | #3,246 | 17.9 |
| 2010 | 46 | #2,640 | 24.0 |
| 2009 | 32 | #3,408 | 16.1 |
| 2008 | 31 | #3,495 | 15.2 |
| 2007 | 39 | #2,975 | 18.8 |
| 2006 | 24 | #4,015 | 11.7 |
| 2005 | 25 | #3,725 | 12.5 |
| 2004 | 24 | #3,743 | 12.1 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,300 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 14 | #5,162 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,069 | 5.7 |
| 2000 | 16 | #4,604 | 8.1 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,705 | 5.7 |
| 1998 | 10 | #5,884 | 5.2 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,701 | 5.3 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,581 | 5.3 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,165 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 17 | #3,763 | 8.8 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,397 | 5.1 |
| 1992 | 18 | #3,466 | 9.0 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,011 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,488 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 15 | #3,636 | 7.5 |
| 1988 | 14 | #3,541 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 11 | #3,994 | 5.9 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,026 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 12 | #3,618 | 6.5 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,657 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Calan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 994 Americans recorded as Calan, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 34 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Calan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Calan, and how old are they?
An estimated 978 Americans named Calan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 7 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 816 people named Calan (94 women and girls, 722 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 766 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Calan?
Calan is a less common spelling of Callan: SSA has recorded 994 Calan and 12,634 Callan since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 41,051 babies since 1880, Calan is the eighth most given (2.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 34 of their 2,812 babies (1.2%), the sixth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Calan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Calan and names like it
- Compare Calan and CallanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCalan peaked in 2018.
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- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Calan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Calan alive today were born 2013-2025.
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