Meaning not yet researched.
Callan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,917 in 2025. Its best rank was #190 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 97% of babies named Callan in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#190 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Callan: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,917 boys in 2025. Peak: #190 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 1,917 (2025).
In 2025, 1,917 US boys were named Callan, making it the 190th most common boys’ name of the year, up 52 places from #242 in 2024. That is 462 more than the 1,455 boys named Callan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #190, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,917. For comparison, it was #687 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 66 US girls were named Callan, making it the 2,616th most common girls’ name of the year, up 440 places from #3,056 in 2024. That is 13 more than the 53 girls named Callan in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,252, reached in 1988. The most girls given the name in a single year was 66, in 2025. For comparison, it was #4,750 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Callan in 49 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1957 with 5 babies. In all, 12,634 US babies have been given the name, 12% of them girls and 88% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 7,144 babies named Callan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 8,543 US boys were named Callan; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,917. In 2025 that was about 1 in 891 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Callan ranked highest in Vermont in 2025, at #65 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 7 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Kalan (1,588 babies since 1880), Callen (10,105 babies since 1880), Callahan (7,031 babies since 1880) and Cailyn (5,554 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Calan, Calynn and Calian are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Calan (994), Calynn (504), Calian (331), Calahan (291), Calleen (267), Calihan (225), Caliann (166), Caleen (106), Callon (84), Calon (57), Caolan (36), Callihan (22), and more.
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 Callan 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 3 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vermont | 7 | #65 | — |
| New Hampshire | 21 | #71 | — |
| Alaska | 10 | #78 | — |
| South Dakota | 15 | #78 | — |
| Massachusetts | 82 | #86 | #327 |
| Iowa | 39 | #93 | #423 |
| Connecticut | 37 | #98 | #463 |
| Colorado | 62 | #115 | #595 |
| Minnesota | 53 | #118 | #355 |
| West Virginia | 16 | #122 | — |
| North Dakota | 10 | #122 | — |
| Wisconsin | 49 | #126 | #318 |
| Maine | 10 | #128 | — |
| Montana | 10 | #130 | — |
| Rhode Island | 9 | #130 | — |
| Kansas | 28 | #136 | #599 |
| Pennsylvania | 90 | #140 | #709 |
| Washington | 57 | #144 | #712 |
| Nebraska | 18 | #153 | #295 |
| Ohio | 86 | #159 | #566 |
| Oregon | 26 | #160 | — |
| Maryland | 34 | #177 | #499 |
| Virginia | 50 | #182 | #898 |
| Missouri | 39 | #183 | #528 |
| Idaho | 14 | #188 | — |
| Oklahoma | 26 | #189 | #584 |
| New Jersey | 52 | #190 | #728 |
| Indiana | 44 | #192 | #631 |
| South Carolina | 29 | #195 | — |
| North Carolina | 64 | #197 | #1,143 |
| Tennessee | 46 | #199 | — |
| Illinois | 57 | #206 | #676 |
| Delaware | 5 | #212 | — |
| Alabama | 26 | #217 | #453 |
| Hawaii | 5 | #220 | — |
| Utah | 23 | #227 | — |
| Arizona | 34 | #234 | #630 |
| California | 158 | #235 | #938 |
| Michigan | 42 | #242 | #677 |
| Florida | 85 | #243 | #807 |
| Georgia | 49 | #252 | #474 |
| New York | 76 | #253 | #775 |
| Texas | 151 | #262 | #765 |
| Nevada | 11 | #274 | — |
| Kentucky | 19 | #284 | — |
| Arkansas | 11 | #309 | — |
| Mississippi | 10 | #317 | — |
| Louisiana | 13 | #379 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 66 | #2,616 | 1,917 | #190 |
| 2024 | 53 | #3,056 | 1,455 | #242 |
| 2023 | 60 | #2,828 | 983 | #339 |
| 2022 | 45 | #3,485 | 930 | #354 |
| 2021 | 52 | #3,122 | 868 | #374 |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,568 | 686 | #434 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,185 | 542 | #525 |
| 2018 | 45 | #3,447 | 465 | #589 |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,497 | 365 | #684 |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,273 | 332 | #736 |
| 2015 | 29 | #4,750 | 365 | #687 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,796 | 384 | #668 |
| 2013 | 35 | #4,177 | 286 | #788 |
| 2012 | 31 | #4,629 | 263 | #830 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,930 | 234 | #886 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,453 | 153 | #1,180 |
| 2009 | 23 | #5,927 | 81 | #1,828 |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,473 | 83 | #1,794 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,585 | 76 | #1,878 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,749 | 50 | #2,454 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,589 | 41 | #2,667 |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,725 | 54 | #2,166 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,443 | 42 | #2,479 |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,658 | 44 | #2,341 |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,468 | 42 | #2,351 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,897 | 29 | #3,005 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,598 | 43 | #2,170 |
| 1998 | 33 | #3,582 | 37 | #2,354 |
| 1997 | 34 | #3,377 | 41 | #2,134 |
| 1996 | 39 | #3,036 | 19 | #3,563 |
| 1995 | 42 | #2,849 | 15 | #4,079 |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,940 | 17 | #3,770 |
| 1993 | 44 | #2,729 | 21 | #3,160 |
| 1992 | 35 | #3,224 | 21 | #3,124 |
| 1991 | 40 | #2,893 | 17 | #3,480 |
| 1990 | 41 | #2,808 | 21 | #2,968 |
| 1989 | 29 | #3,487 | 22 | #2,800 |
| 1988 | 50 | #2,252 | 22 | #2,615 |
| 1987 | 43 | #2,400 | 10 | #4,285 |
| 1986 | 34 | #2,785 | 23 | #2,370 |
| 1985 | 20 | #3,999 | 6 | #5,892 |
| 1984 | 11 | #5,946 | 10 | #3,953 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,165 | 8 | #4,563 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,373 | 12 | #3,514 |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #4,866 |
| 1973 | — | — | 7 | #4,116 |
| 1972 | — | — | 6 | #4,505 |
| 1963 | — | — | 5 | #4,115 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,060 |
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).