Callaway
Callaway is given to both girls and boys: 93 girls and 88 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,039 among girls’ names and #1,811 among boys’, #2,361 among all names counting both); 1,221 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Girls have outnumbered boys among babies named Callaway every year since 2025.
An estimated 1,210 Americans named Callaway and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 2 and 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Callaway by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Callaway?
#1,811 among boys’ names, 2025
Callaway rose from #5,546 in 2015 to #1,811 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 8.3 to 51.5 per million.
181 babies in 2025, the peak
Callaway peaked in 2025, when 181 babies were given it (88 boys, #1,811 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 67 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 93 | #2,039 | 88 | #1,811 |
| 2024 | 59 | #2,824 | 67 | #2,172 |
| 2023 | 42 | #3,650 | 65 | #2,192 |
| 2022 | 41 | #3,713 | 49 | #2,679 |
| 2021 | 41 | #3,691 | 41 | #2,981 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,187 | 35 | #3,211 |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,182 | 30 | #3,645 |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,034 | 20 | #4,762 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,584 | 29 | #3,688 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,163 | 31 | #3,538 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #8,082 | 16 | #5,546 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,050 | 21 | #4,554 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,516 | 19 | #4,825 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,517 | 9 | #8,253 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,280 | 20 | #4,678 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,331 | 10 | #7,668 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,598 | 8 | #9,108 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,205 | 10 | #7,776 |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,967 | 20 | #4,660 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,402 | 14 | #5,822 |
| 2005 | under 5 | 5 | #11,709 | |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,377 | 9 | #7,120 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,183 | 6 | #9,426 |
| 2000 | under 5 | 5 | #10,584 | |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,512 | 6 | #8,847 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,391 | 6 | #8,613 |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,942 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,756 | under 5 |
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 Callaway a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,221 Americans recorded as Callaway, 48% are girls and 52% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Callaway: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Callaway, and how old are they?
1,210 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,221 Americans ever recorded as Callaway. The median Callaway alive today is 6 years old; half are between 2 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 633 people named Callaway (308 women and girls, 325 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 586 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 248 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 959 |
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 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,078 babies since 1880, Callaway is the most given (59% of them). In 2025 it was given to 181 of their 325 babies (56%), 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 Callaway
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 Callaway and names like it
- Compare Callaway and CallowayBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sCallaway peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Callaway since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Callaway.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Callaway alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.