Calan — #3819 US boys' name
940 babies named Calan in U.S. Social Security records since 1984, with the highest year being 2018. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 73% of names given to boys today.
36% of everyone ever named Calan was born in this single decade.
51 babies were named Calan in 2018 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Calan
The Social Security Administration has registered 940 babies named Calan between 1984 and 2024, spanning 41 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Calan currently holds the #3819 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 51 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Calan performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 339 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Calan shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 20 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Indiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Calan in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Calan in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 940 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Calan at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Calan popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1984
- Peak year (2018)
- 51
- Annual births at peak — across 41 years of records
Currently ranks #3819 among boys.
940 total births across 41 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2018 with 51 births in a single year.
Calan popularity over time — girls
20 total births recorded since 1986 (Calan as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Calan accounts for 2% of total recorded use across both genders.
Calan by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 339 births that decade — 36% of Calan's all-time total
Calan decade highlights
- Peak decade 339 births
- Runner-up 230 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Calan's strongest decade
339 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 36% of all-time use.
Calan by state
Where Calan concentrates geographically — total births since 1984
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 20 | 2.1% |
| #2 | California | | 7 | 0.7% |
| #3 | Indiana | | 7 | 0.7% |
| #4 | Kansas | | 5 | 0.5% |
| #5 | North Carolina | | 5 | 0.5% |
| #6 | Pennsylvania | | 5 | 0.5% |
20 of 940 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 6 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Texas 2.1% of nationwide
- California 0.7% of nationwide
- Indiana 0.7% of nationwide
- Kansas 0.5% of nationwide
- North Carolina 0.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 6 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 2.1% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1984–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.