Calin
Calin was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,186 among boys’ names; 1,390 Americans have been recorded with it since 1960 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,360 Americans named Calin 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 Calin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Calin?
#6,186 among boys’ names, 2025
Calin fell from #2,926 in 2015 to #6,186 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 20.9 to 8.2 per million.
70 babies in 2011, the peak
Calin peaked in 2011, when 70 babies were given it (64 boys, #2,081 among boys’ names). The 14 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 14 | #6,186 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 18 | #5,270 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 28 | #3,902 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 27 | #4,000 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 23 | #4,384 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 23 | #4,292 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 21 | #4,659 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 24 | #4,245 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 33 | #3,391 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 23 | #4,344 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 40 | #2,926 | |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,047 | 41 | #2,849 |
| 2013 | under 5 | 47 | #2,568 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 47 | #2,598 | |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,184 | 64 | #2,081 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,565 | 37 | #3,079 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,596 | 32 | #3,409 |
| 2008 | under 5 | 29 | #3,656 | |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,889 | 29 | #3,610 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,622 | 36 | #3,032 |
| 2005 | 12 | #8,998 | 23 | #3,955 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,033 | 23 | #3,876 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,636 | 22 | #3,847 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,842 | 29 | #3,108 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,376 | 25 | #3,425 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,003 | 24 | #3,431 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,797 | 26 | #3,114 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,389 | 33 | #2,558 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,445 | 24 | #3,074 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,202 | 20 | #3,409 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,170 | 18 | #3,568 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,175 | 28 | #2,625 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,772 | 21 | #3,153 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,599 | 21 | #3,117 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,448 | 23 | #2,833 |
| 1990 | under 5 | 20 | #3,066 | |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,810 | 27 | #2,415 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,379 | 25 | #2,373 |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,896 | 17 | #2,957 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,660 | 15 | #3,148 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,027 | 21 | #2,434 |
| 1984 | under 5 | 6 | #5,658 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 13 | #3,256 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 5 | #6,492 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 6 | #5,590 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 5 | #6,378 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 5 | #4,480 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 5 | #4,106 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Calin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,390 Americans recorded as Calin, 16% are girls and 84% boys. In 2025 it went to 14 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 Calin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Calin, and how old are they?
1,360 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,390 Americans ever recorded as Calin. The median Calin alive today is 21 years old; half are between 13 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 1,590 people named Calin (243 women and girls, 1,347 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,241 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 9 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 365 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 618 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 364 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 41,084 babies since 1880, Calin is the eighth most given (3.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 2,799 babies (<1%), again the eighth 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 Calin
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 Calin and names like it
- Compare Calin and CallanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCalin peaked in 2011.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Calin since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Calin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Calin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.