Meaning not yet researched.
Calen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 35 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,177 in 1987.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,177 in 1987; #3,323 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Calen in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,323 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1987, at #1,177.
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Calen: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 35 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,177 in 1987 · most boys in one year: 103 (2011).
In 2025, 35 US boys were named Calen, making it the 3,323rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 566 places from #2,757 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 47 boys named Calen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,177, reached in 1987. The most boys given the name in a single year was 103, in 2011. For comparison, it was #2,214 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Calen in 49 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1977 with 12 babies. In all, 2,720 US babies have been given the name, 8.3% of them girls and 92% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 751 babies named Calen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 488 US boys were named Calen; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 66. In 2025 that was about 1 in 48,802 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Callan (12,634 babies since 1880), Callen (10,105 babies since 1880), Kaylen (8,504 babies since 1880) and Kalyn (7,793 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Calen in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 35 | #3,323 |
| 2024 | — | — | 47 | #2,757 |
| 2023 | — | — | 51 | #2,584 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,745 | 52 | #2,593 |
| 2021 | — | — | 43 | #2,869 |
| 2020 | — | — | 44 | #2,767 |
| 2019 | — | — | 50 | #2,590 |
| 2018 | — | — | 58 | #2,304 |
| 2017 | — | — | 42 | #2,847 |
| 2016 | — | — | 66 | #2,116 |
| 2015 | — | — | 61 | #2,214 |
| 2014 | — | — | 69 | #2,046 |
| 2013 | — | — | 79 | #1,814 |
| 2012 | — | — | 92 | #1,670 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,258 | 103 | #1,534 |
| 2010 | — | — | 96 | #1,628 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,653 | 68 | #2,035 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,207 | 74 | #1,935 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,893 | 90 | #1,682 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,604 | 77 | #1,793 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,002 | 57 | #2,132 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,849 | 58 | #2,053 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,159 | 48 | #2,241 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,954 | 58 | #1,920 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,381 | 60 | #1,843 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,118 | 60 | #1,800 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,904 | 45 | #2,101 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,275 | 48 | #1,990 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,043 | 43 | #2,065 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,668 | 55 | #1,709 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,705 | 56 | #1,625 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,682 | 55 | #1,644 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,151 | 46 | #1,827 |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,835 | 35 | #2,181 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,454 | 38 | #1,988 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,374 | 34 | #2,131 |
| 1989 | — | — | 52 | #1,552 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,381 | 48 | #1,530 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,010 | 67 | #1,177 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,130 | 43 | #1,541 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,454 | 55 | #1,292 |
| 1984 | — | — | 31 | #1,804 |
| 1983 | — | — | 32 | #1,755 |
| 1982 | — | — | 18 | #2,609 |
| 1981 | — | — | 14 | #3,051 |
| 1980 | — | — | 12 | #3,445 |
| 1979 | — | — | 9 | #4,116 |
| 1978 | — | — | 8 | #4,201 |
| 1977 | — | — | 12 | #3,224 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).