Callen — #477 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Callen

The Social Security Administration has registered 8,921 babies named Callen between 1954 and 2024, spanning 71 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Callen currently holds the #477 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 687 babies received it in a single year. Callen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 585 additional births since 1983.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Callen performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 4,767 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Callen shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 671 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Callen in 45 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Callen 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 8,921 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.