Meaning not yet researched.
Callahan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,566 in 2025. Its best rank was #227 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 93% of babies named Callahan in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#227 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Callahan: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,566 boys in 2025. Peak: #227 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 1,566 (2025).
In 2025, 1,566 US boys were named Callahan, making it the 227th most common boys’ name of the year, up 137 places from #364 in 2024. That is 658 more than the 908 boys named Callahan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #227, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,566. For comparison, it was #1,806 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 116 US girls were named Callahan, making it the 1,748th most common girls’ name of the year, up 472 places from #2,220 in 2024. That is 31 more than the 85 girls named Callahan in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,748, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 116. For comparison, it was #5,011 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Callahan in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1983 with 5 babies. In all, 7,031 US babies have been given the name, 14% of them girls and 86% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 4,843 babies named Callahan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,133 US boys were named Callahan; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,566. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,091 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Callahan ranked highest in Montana in 2025, at #79 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 5 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Callan (12,634 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Callaghan, Kallahan and Kalahan are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Callaghan (438), Kallahan (148), Kalahan (10).
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 Callahan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 10 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montana | 15 | #79 | — |
| New Hampshire | 16 | #94 | — |
| Missouri | 68 | #95 | — |
| Wisconsin | 62 | #96 | — |
| South Dakota | 13 | #97 | — |
| Minnesota | 59 | #106 | — |
| North Dakota | 11 | #109 | — |
| Idaho | 22 | #113 | — |
| Iowa | 33 | #120 | — |
| Kansas | 31 | #126 | — |
| Michigan | 75 | #132 | — |
| Indiana | 55 | #150 | #731 |
| Nebraska | 18 | #152 | — |
| Oklahoma | 31 | #153 | — |
| Ohio | 85 | #161 | — |
| Maine | 7 | #179 | — |
| Tennessee | 52 | #180 | — |
| Arkansas | 20 | #182 | — |
| Oregon | 23 | #182 | — |
| Colorado | 37 | #186 | — |
| Utah | 29 | #187 | — |
| Alabama | 28 | #200 | — |
| Illinois | 55 | #213 | — |
| Washington | 36 | #222 | — |
| North Carolina | 56 | #223 | #1,142 |
| Pennsylvania | 52 | #237 | — |
| South Carolina | 23 | #244 | — |
| Nevada | 12 | #245 | — |
| Massachusetts | 22 | #264 | — |
| Virginia | 32 | #269 | — |
| New York | 67 | #276 | — |
| Maryland | 19 | #288 | — |
| Texas | 131 | #297 | — |
| Florida | 64 | #302 | — |
| Arizona | 25 | #312 | — |
| Kentucky | 16 | #320 | — |
| Connecticut | 9 | #330 | — |
| Georgia | 31 | #377 | — |
| Louisiana | 12 | #403 | — |
| New Jersey | 19 | #415 | — |
| California | 68 | #467 | #2,621 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 116 | #1,748 | 1,566 | #227 |
| 2024 | 85 | #2,220 | 908 | #364 |
| 2023 | 67 | #2,624 | 665 | #461 |
| 2022 | 75 | #2,428 | 571 | #519 |
| 2021 | 51 | #3,168 | 410 | #660 |
| 2020 | 41 | #3,628 | 288 | #806 |
| 2019 | 50 | #3,182 | 244 | #899 |
| 2018 | 35 | #4,090 | 200 | #1,026 |
| 2017 | 32 | #4,412 | 166 | #1,142 |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,021 | 115 | #1,484 |
| 2015 | 27 | #5,011 | 83 | #1,806 |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,027 | 77 | #1,889 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,855 | 57 | #2,254 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,584 | 47 | #2,600 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,611 | 37 | #3,056 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,596 | 43 | #2,795 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,609 | 42 | #2,852 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,604 | 41 | #2,886 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,118 | 28 | #3,701 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,209 | 35 | #3,097 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,261 | 35 | #2,966 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,405 | 41 | #2,606 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,613 | 29 | #3,205 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,756 | 27 | #3,274 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,117 | 33 | #2,813 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,257 | 36 | #2,579 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,261 | 30 | #2,804 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,770 | 26 | #3,028 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,854 | 23 | #3,169 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,758 | 25 | #2,934 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,176 | 11 | #5,172 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,377 | 13 | #4,571 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,779 | 6 | #7,756 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,597 | 14 | #4,133 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,459 | — | — |
| 1990 | — | — | 6 | #7,301 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,657 | 8 | #5,704 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,386 | 6 | #6,532 |
| 1987 | — | — | 15 | #3,216 |
| 1986 | — | — | 13 | #3,466 |
| 1985 | — | — | 5 | #6,660 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #6,371 |
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).