Callan — #242 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Callan

The Social Security Administration has registered 9,243 babies named Callan between 1957 and 2024, spanning 68 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Callan currently holds the #242 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 1,452 babies received it in a single year. Callan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,404 additional births since 1982.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Callan performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 4,918 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Callan shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 839 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Callan in 47 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Callan 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 9,243 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.