Calen
Calen was given to 35 boys in 2025, #3,322 among boys’ names; 2,720 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,660 Americans named Calen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 13 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Calen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Calen?
#3,322 among boys’ names, 2025
Calen fell from #2,214 in 2015 to #3,322 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 31.8 to 20.5 per million.
108 babies in 2011, the peak
Calen peaked in 2011, when 108 babies were given it (103 boys, #1,534 among boys’ names). The 35 births of 2025 are 32% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #3,322 | 20.5 |
| 2024 | 47 | #2,757 | 27.3 |
| 2023 | 51 | #2,583 | 29.8 |
| 2022 | 52 | #2,592 | 29.8 |
| 2021 | 43 | #2,868 | 24.6 |
| 2020 | 44 | #2,766 | 25.5 |
| 2019 | 50 | #2,589 | 27.9 |
| 2018 | 58 | #2,303 | 31.9 |
| 2017 | 42 | #2,846 | 22.7 |
| 2016 | 66 | #2,116 | 34.8 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 61 | #2,214 | 31.8 |
| 2014 | 69 | #2,045 | 35.9 |
| 2013 | 79 | #1,813 | 41.8 |
| 2012 | 92 | #1,669 | 48.5 |
| 2011 | 103 | #1,534 | 54.2 |
| 2010 | 96 | #1,628 | 50.0 |
| 2009 | 68 | #2,034 | 34.3 |
| 2008 | 74 | #1,935 | 36.3 |
| 2007 | 90 | #1,682 | 43.4 |
| 2006 | 77 | #1,793 | 37.5 |
| 2005 | 57 | #2,128 | 28.5 |
| 2004 | 58 | #2,049 | 29.2 |
| 2003 | 48 | #2,237 | 24.3 |
| 2002 | 58 | #1,916 | 29.9 |
| 2001 | 60 | #1,839 | 30.9 |
| 2000 | 60 | #1,796 | 30.5 |
| 1999 | 45 | #2,098 | 23.4 |
| 1998 | 48 | #1,987 | 25.1 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,062 | 22.8 |
| 1996 | 55 | #1,706 | 29.0 |
| 1995 | 56 | #1,620 | 29.4 |
| 1994 | 55 | #1,639 | 28.5 |
| 1993 | 46 | #1,822 | 23.5 |
| 1992 | 35 | #2,176 | 17.5 |
| 1991 | 38 | #1,982 | 18.8 |
| 1990 | 34 | #2,126 | 16.6 |
| 1989 | 52 | #1,547 | 26.0 |
| 1988 | 48 | #1,525 | 25.1 |
| 1987 | 67 | #1,176 | 35.9 |
| 1986 | 43 | #1,540 | 23.4 |
| 1985 | 55 | #1,291 | 29.8 |
| 1984 | 31 | #1,803 | 17.2 |
| 1983 | 32 | #1,754 | 17.9 |
| 1982 | 18 | #2,608 | 9.9 |
| 1981 | 14 | #3,049 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 12 | #3,444 | 6.7 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,114 | 5.2 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,199 | 4.9 |
| 1977 | 12 | #3,222 | 7.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Calen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,720 Americans recorded as Calen, 8% are girls and 92% boys. In 2025 it went to 35 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 Calen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Calen, and how old are they?
2,660 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,720 Americans ever recorded as Calen. The median Calen alive today is 21 years old; half are between 13 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 2,415 people named Calen (254 women and girls, 2,161 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,411 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 38 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 734 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,190 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 697 |
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 Calen born?
The states with the most babies named Calen are California, Texas and Illinois, with 60% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 161 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 101 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 38 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 35 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 28 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 22 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 21 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Missouri | 18 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 12 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Colorado | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Calen 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 42,882 babies since 1880, Calen is the seventh most given (6.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 35 of their 2,940 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 Calen
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 Calen and names like it
- Compare Calen and CallanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCalen peaked in 2011.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Calen since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Calen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Calen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.