Callen
Callen was given to 579 boys in 2025, #516 among boys’ names; 10,105 Americans have been recorded with it since 1954 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,990 Americans named Callen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Callen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Callen mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Callen is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
Variant of Callan.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Callen?
#516 among boys’ names, 2025
Callen rose from #520 in 2015 to #516 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.29 to 0.34 per 1,000.
721 babies in 2023, the peak
Callen peaked in 2023, when 721 babies were given it (687 boys, #450 among boys’ names). The 598 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 83% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 579 | #516 | 0.34 |
| 2024 | 643 | #480 | 0.37 |
| 2023 | 687 | #450 | 0.40 |
| 2022 | 670 | #459 | 0.38 |
| 2021 | 656 | #459 | 0.37 |
| 2020 | 527 | #534 | 0.31 |
| 2019 | 511 | #552 | 0.28 |
| 2018 | 482 | #573 | 0.27 |
| 2017 | 480 | #566 | 0.26 |
| 2016 | 544 | #536 | 0.29 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 554 | #520 | 0.29 |
| 2014 | 562 | #503 | 0.29 |
| 2013 | 428 | #592 | 0.23 |
| 2012 | 452 | #570 | 0.24 |
| 2011 | 421 | #593 | 0.22 |
| 2010 | 334 | #698 | 0.17 |
| 2009 | 96 | #1,641 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 74 | #1,936 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 77 | #1,864 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 49 | #2,480 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 52 | #2,266 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 37 | #2,791 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 43 | #2,432 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 36 | #2,639 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 31 | #2,936 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 27 | #3,155 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 28 | #2,946 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 39 | #2,276 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 27 | #2,828 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 28 | #2,684 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 26 | #2,770 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 17 | #3,765 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 18 | #3,511 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 24 | #2,843 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 21 | #3,000 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 18 | #3,322 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 14 | #3,828 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 23 | #2,519 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 20 | #2,643 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 21 | #2,520 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,828 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 10 | #3,951 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,174 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,493 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #5,959 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 6 | #4,865 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,022 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,080 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,683 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,127 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 10 | #2,701 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 8 | #3,067 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,023 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,060 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 8 | #3,000 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #3,948 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 11 | #2,471 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Callen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 10,105 Americans recorded as Callen, 6% are girls and 94% boys. In 2025 it went to 19 girls and 579 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Callen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Callen, and how old are they?
9,990 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 10,105 Americans ever recorded as Callen. The median Callen alive today is 9 years old; half are between 4 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 6,074 people named Callen (502 women and girls, 5,572 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,258 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 54 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 14 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 419 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,970 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,540 |
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 Callen born?
The states with the most babies named Callen are Texas, California and Pennsylvania, with 23% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 53 | #590 | 0.7× |
| California | 39 | #700 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 32 | #345 | 1.2× |
| Wisconsin | 29 | #211 | 2.1× |
| Ohio | 26 | #413 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 26 | #635 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 21 | #486 | 0.8× |
| Washington | 21 | #352 | 1.1× |
| Minnesota | 20 | #305 | 1.6× |
| New York | 20 | #719 | 0.5× |
Where Callen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Callen is most over-represented in Iowa: since 1954 it was given 2.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Callen 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 40,856 babies since 1880, Callen is the second most given (25% of them). In 2025 it was given to 598 of their 2,940 babies (20%), again the second 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 Callen
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 Callen and names like it
- Compare Callen and CallanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sCallen peaked in 2023.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Callen since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Callen: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Callen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Callen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.