Calloway — #1849 US boys' name
596 babies named Calloway in U.S. Social Security records since 1912, with the highest year being 2024. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 87% of names given to boys today.
51% of everyone ever named Calloway was born in this single decade.
87 babies were named Calloway in 2024 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Calloway
The Social Security Administration has registered 596 babies named Calloway between 1912 and 2024, spanning 113 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Calloway currently holds the #1849 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 87 babies received it in a single year. Calloway is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 115 additional births since 2012.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Calloway performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 303 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Calloway shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 25 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Tennessee and Kentucky. In total, SSA state-level files list Calloway in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Calloway 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 596 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.
Calloway at a glance
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Current rank
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Calloway popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1912
- Peak year (2024)
- 87
- Annual births at peak — across 113 years of records
Currently ranks #1849 among boys.
596 total births across 113 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2024 with 87 births in a single year.
Calloway popularity over time — girls
115 total births recorded since 2012 (Calloway as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Calloway accounts for 16% of total recorded use across both genders.
Calloway by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2020s
- 303 births that decade — 51% of Calloway's all-time total
Calloway decade highlights
- Peak decade 303 births
- Runner-up 193 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2020s was Calloway's strongest decade
303 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 51% of all-time use.
Calloway by state
Where Calloway concentrates geographically — total births since 1912
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 25 | 4.2% |
| #2 | Tennessee | | 20 | 3.4% |
| #3 | Kentucky | | 6 | 1.0% |
| #4 | Minnesota | | 6 | 1.0% |
| #5 | Ohio | | 6 | 1.0% |
| #6 | Indiana | | 5 | 0.8% |
| #7 | Missouri | | 5 | 0.8% |
25 of 596 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 7 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Texas 4.2% of nationwide
- Tennessee 3.4% of nationwide
- Kentucky 1.0% of nationwide
- Minnesota 1.0% of nationwide
- Ohio 1.0% of nationwide
Recorded in 7 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 4.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1912–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.