Calder
Calder was given to 94 boys in 2025, #1,731 among boys’ names; 2,203 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,170 Americans named Calder and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Calder by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Calder?
#1,731 among boys’ names, 2025
Calder rose from #1,856 in 2015 to #1,731 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 41.2 to 55.0 per million.
120 babies in 2016, the peak
Calder peaked in 2016, when 120 boys were given it, #1,444 among boys’ names. The 94 births of 2025 are 78% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 94 | #1,731 | 55.0 |
| 2024 | 78 | #1,987 | 45.3 |
| 2023 | 113 | #1,549 | 66.1 |
| 2022 | 88 | #1,829 | 50.4 |
| 2021 | 80 | #1,903 | 45.7 |
| 2020 | 86 | #1,768 | 49.8 |
| 2019 | 84 | #1,817 | 46.8 |
| 2018 | 98 | #1,648 | 54.0 |
| 2017 | 107 | #1,532 | 57.8 |
| 2016 | 120 | #1,444 | 63.2 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 79 | #1,856 | 41.2 |
| 2014 | 87 | #1,732 | 45.3 |
| 2013 | 70 | #1,970 | 37.0 |
| 2012 | 65 | #2,092 | 34.3 |
| 2011 | 77 | #1,834 | 40.5 |
| 2010 | 65 | #2,070 | 33.9 |
| 2009 | 65 | #2,101 | 32.8 |
| 2008 | 64 | #2,126 | 31.4 |
| 2007 | 39 | #2,976 | 18.8 |
| 2006 | 62 | #2,106 | 30.2 |
| 2005 | 39 | #2,754 | 19.5 |
| 2004 | 57 | #2,074 | 28.7 |
| 2003 | 40 | #2,545 | 20.2 |
| 2002 | 38 | #2,560 | 19.6 |
| 2001 | 28 | #3,149 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 34 | #2,676 | 17.3 |
| 1999 | 26 | #3,113 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 24 | #3,202 | 12.6 |
| 1997 | 18 | #3,751 | 9.5 |
| 1996 | 16 | #4,036 | 8.4 |
| 1995 | 20 | #3,316 | 10.5 |
| 1994 | 21 | #3,226 | 10.9 |
| 1993 | 26 | #2,709 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 17 | #3,620 | 8.5 |
| 1991 | 13 | #4,256 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 14 | #3,991 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 18 | #3,215 | 9.0 |
| 1988 | 23 | #2,518 | 12.0 |
| 1987 | 11 | #3,995 | 5.9 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,027 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,429 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 19 | #2,540 | 10.5 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,579 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,190 | 5.0 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,180 | 5.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Calder a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,203 Americans recorded as Calder, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 94 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 Calder: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Calder, and how old are they?
2,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,203 Americans ever recorded as Calder. The median Calder alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 1,699 people named Calder (82 women and girls, 1,617 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,661 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 8 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 221 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 750 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,190 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Calder born?
The states with the most babies named Calder are Texas, California and Colorado, with 67% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Colorado is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 8 | #1,936 | 0.4× |
| California | 6 | #2,246 | 0.7× |
| Colorado | 6 | #774 | 0.7× |
| Utah | 5 | #717 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,135 | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Calder with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,515 babies since 1880, Calder is the most given (88% of them). In 2025 it was given to 94 of their 117 babies (80%), again the most given.
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 Calder
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 Calder and names like it
- Compare Calder and KaulderBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCalder peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Calder since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Calder.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Calder alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.