Calen — #2760 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Calen

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,459 babies named Calen between 1977 and 2024, spanning 48 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Calen currently holds the #2760 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2011, when 103 babies received it in a single year. Calen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 226 additional births since 1985.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Calen performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 716 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Calen shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 161 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Calen in 17 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Calen 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 2,459 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.