Meaning not yet researched.
Callum: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,995 in 2025. Its best rank was #118 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 99.7% of babies named Callum in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#118 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Callum: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,995 boys in 2025. Peak: #118 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 2,995 (2025).
In 2025, 2,995 US boys were named Callum, making it the 118th most common boys’ name of the year, up 40 places from #158 in 2024. That is 729 more than the 2,266 boys named Callum in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #118, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 2,995. For comparison, it was #685 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Callum in 43 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1983 with 6 babies. In all, 16,089 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 10,593 babies named Callum.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 12,501 US boys were named Callum; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 2,995. In 2025 that was about 1 in 570 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Callum ranked highest in New Hampshire in 2025, at #38 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 25 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Cal (7,868 babies since 1880), Calum (3,506 babies since 1880), Caelum (928 babies since 1880) and Kallum (697 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kalum, Calem and Caellum 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: Kalum (450), Calem (437), Caellum (188), Kaelum (180), Kaylum (158), Caylum (109), Kailum (38), Cailum (17), Caylem (15).
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 Callum 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 every state is listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Hampshire | 30 | #38 | — |
| Nebraska | 40 | #50 | — |
| Rhode Island | 17 | #54 | — |
| Maine | 19 | #55 | — |
| Vermont | 8 | #57 | — |
| Massachusetts | 105 | #59 | #313 |
| Iowa | 51 | #61 | #461 |
| Wisconsin | 87 | #61 | #516 |
| Idaho | 32 | #62 | — |
| Oregon | 57 | #64 | — |
| Montana | 16 | #66 | — |
| District of Columbia | 12 | #67 | — |
| South Dakota | 16 | #69 | — |
| Wyoming | 6 | #72 | — |
| Colorado | 87 | #72 | #645 |
| Indiana | 98 | #75 | #732 |
| Ohio | 148 | #78 | #627 |
| Utah | 59 | #80 | #514 |
| Kansas | 40 | #83 | — |
| Washington | 88 | #84 | #468 |
| Minnesota | 70 | #85 | #473 |
| Hawaii | 10 | #94 | — |
| Virginia | 94 | #95 | #629 |
| Pennsylvania | 134 | #96 | #591 |
| Alaska | 8 | #97 | — |
| Delaware | 10 | #102 | — |
| Oklahoma | 44 | #103 | — |
| North Carolina | 113 | #109 | #630 |
| North Dakota | 11 | #110 | — |
| Connecticut | 34 | #110 | — |
| Missouri | 62 | #114 | #670 |
| Maryland | 50 | #116 | #539 |
| Tennessee | 79 | #118 | #838 |
| Michigan | 84 | #120 | #637 |
| Arkansas | 29 | #122 | — |
| West Virginia | 16 | #123 | — |
| Illinois | 89 | #127 | #579 |
| New Jersey | 66 | #147 | #873 |
| Kentucky | 36 | #150 | #541 |
| South Carolina | 38 | #153 | — |
| Arizona | 56 | #157 | #678 |
| California | 243 | #160 | #629 |
| Louisiana | 31 | #164 | — |
| Texas | 217 | #172 | #766 |
| Alabama | 33 | #173 | #524 |
| Georgia | 70 | #179 | — |
| New York | 106 | #189 | #776 |
| Florida | 111 | #196 | #916 |
| Nevada | 15 | #204 | — |
| New Mexico | 8 | #241 | — |
| Mississippi | 12 | #262 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,126 | 2,995 | #118 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,728 | 2,266 | #158 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,100 | 1,645 | #221 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,928 | 1,417 | #249 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,317 | 1,264 | #273 |
| 2020 | — | — | 968 | #336 |
| 2019 | — | — | 671 | #449 |
| 2018 | — | — | 493 | #558 |
| 2017 | — | — | 433 | #609 |
| 2016 | — | — | 349 | #706 |
| 2015 | — | — | 369 | #685 |
| 2014 | — | — | 327 | #732 |
| 2013 | — | — | 287 | #782 |
| 2012 | — | — | 275 | #807 |
| 2011 | — | — | 253 | #846 |
| 2010 | — | — | 250 | #847 |
| 2009 | — | — | 240 | #879 |
| 2008 | — | — | 205 | #974 |
| 2007 | — | — | 168 | #1,091 |
| 2006 | — | — | 142 | #1,187 |
| 2005 | — | — | 104 | #1,415 |
| 2004 | — | — | 105 | #1,375 |
| 2003 | — | — | 112 | #1,269 |
| 2002 | — | — | 82 | #1,514 |
| 2001 | — | — | 87 | #1,432 |
| 2000 | — | — | 79 | #1,515 |
| 1999 | — | — | 73 | #1,533 |
| 1998 | — | — | 58 | #1,742 |
| 1997 | — | — | 66 | #1,552 |
| 1996 | — | — | 67 | #1,501 |
| 1995 | — | — | 47 | #1,842 |
| 1994 | — | — | 39 | #2,089 |
| 1993 | — | — | 19 | #3,383 |
| 1992 | — | — | 24 | #2,850 |
| 1991 | — | — | 17 | #3,481 |
| 1990 | — | — | 11 | #4,705 |
| 1989 | — | — | 8 | #5,705 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #6,533 |
| 1987 | — | — | 7 | #5,557 |
| 1986 | — | — | 7 | #5,409 |
| 1985 | — | — | 5 | #6,662 |
| 1984 | — | — | 5 | #6,447 |
| 1983 | — | — | 6 | #5,584 |
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).