Unisex name · since 2024
Callihan
15 babies named Callihan in U.S. Social Security records since 2024, with the highest year being 2025. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #49,526 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #11,875 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 15
- born since 2024
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yes -- Callihan is the #11875 most popular unisex name in the U.S. today, with 15 recorded since 2024.
Callihan has 15 recorded births among girls since 2024, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #11875 as of the latest data, more common than 31% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2024 to 2025.
- #49,526 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #11,875 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 15 born since 2024
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Callihan ranks #49,526 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #11,875 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 15 born since 2024, peaking in the 2020s.
- #49,526 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #11,875 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 15
- born since 2024
- 2020s
- peak decade
Callihan's 15 recorded births place it above 30.35% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Callihan compares
15 5th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Callihan's all-time total is 96% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Callihan | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 15 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 8 | 21 | 19,840 |
Callihan's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Callihan's full recorded timeline at 2025, 53% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 47% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 2024, with just 7 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2025 peak of 8 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Callihan popularity over time - girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 2 years of records
Callihan popularity over time - boys
7 total births recorded since 2024 (Callihan as boys' name)
Callihan by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (15 births, 100% of the file).
2020s was Callihan's strongest decade.
15 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Callihan births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2020s
2020s
15 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 15 births (100% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Callihan: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2025)
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2024–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Callihan draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.