Meaning not yet researched.
Cullen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 194 in 2025. Its best rank was #413 in 2010.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #413 in 2010; #1,108 in 2025. About 97% of babies named Cullen in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,108 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2010, at #413.
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Cullen: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 194 boys in 2025. Peak: #413 in 2010 · most boys in one year: 679 (2010).
In 2025, 194 US boys were named Cullen, making it the 1,108th most common boys’ name of the year, up 19 places from #1,127 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 189 boys named Cullen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #413, reached in 2010. That year also had the most boys given the name: 679. For comparison, it was #570 in 2015 and #1,832 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cullen in 129 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 9 babies. In all, 16,703 US babies have been given the name, 0.7% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 5,105 babies named Cullen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,532 US boys were named Cullen; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 556. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,805 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Cullen ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #460 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Colleen (163,084 babies since 1880), Collin (81,962 babies since 1880) and Coleen (11,998 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kullen, Quillen and Qualen 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: Kullen (790), Quillen (73), Qualen (10), Kullyn (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 Cullen 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 32 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 10 | #460 | #220 |
| Minnesota | 10 | #526 | #242 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #546 | #268 |
| Arkansas | 5 | #572 | — |
| North Carolina | 17 | #573 | #437 |
| Kentucky | 7 | #577 | — |
| Alabama | 8 | #585 | #457 |
| Indiana | 7 | #792 | #486 |
| Virginia | 8 | #818 | #351 |
| Ohio | 9 | #875 | #797 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #947 | #527 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,013 | #504 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,146 | #482 |
| Texas | 17 | #1,224 | #523 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,275 | #382 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,331 | #618 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,506 | #677 |
| New York | 5 | #1,819 | #834 |
| California | 5 | #2,543 | #1,130 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,590 | 194 | #1,108 |
| 2024 | — | — | 189 | #1,127 |
| 2023 | — | — | 219 | #1,003 |
| 2022 | — | — | 258 | #901 |
| 2021 | — | — | 342 | #745 |
| 2020 | — | — | 370 | #688 |
| 2019 | — | — | 411 | #650 |
| 2018 | — | — | 464 | #590 |
| 2017 | — | — | 556 | #519 |
| 2016 | — | — | 529 | #546 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,045 | 492 | #570 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,165 | 447 | #604 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,256 | 447 | #575 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,481 | 474 | #549 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,263 | 568 | #472 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,410 | 679 | #413 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,944 | 562 | #485 |
| 2008 | — | — | 283 | #782 |
| 2007 | — | — | 286 | #768 |
| 2006 | — | — | 260 | #792 |
| 2005 | — | — | 278 | #728 |
| 2004 | — | — | 270 | #710 |
| 2003 | — | — | 284 | #682 |
| 2002 | — | — | 318 | #619 |
| 2001 | — | — | 336 | #593 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,551 | 363 | #567 |
| 1999 | — | — | 353 | #565 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,390 | 374 | #535 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,423 | 405 | #505 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,827 | 392 | #517 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,761 | 400 | #509 |
| 1994 | — | — | 301 | #597 |
| 1993 | — | — | 337 | #552 |
| 1992 | — | — | 293 | #601 |
| 1991 | — | — | 198 | #720 |
| 1990 | — | — | 166 | #787 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,813 | 177 | #745 |
| 1988 | — | — | 162 | #742 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,686 | 146 | #757 |
| 1986 | — | — | 122 | #822 |
| 1985 | — | — | 100 | #908 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,755 | 90 | #925 |
| 1983 | — | — | 97 | #893 |
| 1982 | — | — | 89 | #954 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,752 | 102 | #882 |
| 1980 | — | — | 98 | #906 |
| 1979 | — | — | 99 | #877 |
| 1978 | — | — | 77 | #983 |
| 1977 | — | — | 57 | #1,159 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,590 | 72 | #981 |
| 1975 | — | — | 58 | #1,102 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,043 | 77 | #926 |
| 1973 | — | — | 56 | #1,084 |
| 1972 | — | — | 36 | #1,422 |
| 1971 | — | — | 53 | #1,129 |
| 1970 | — | — | 62 | #1,035 |
| 1969 | — | — | 50 | #1,098 |
| 1968 | — | — | 39 | #1,220 |
| 1967 | — | — | 26 | #1,516 |
| 1966 | — | — | 27 | #1,485 |
| 1965 | — | — | 21 | #1,731 |
| 1964 | — | — | 33 | #1,373 |
| 1963 | — | — | 23 | #1,667 |
| 1962 | — | — | 31 | #1,406 |
| 1961 | — | — | 34 | #1,373 |
| 1960 | — | — | 39 | #1,253 |
| 1959 | — | — | 37 | #1,281 |
| 1958 | — | — | 24 | #1,603 |
| 1957 | — | — | 27 | #1,515 |
| 1956 | — | — | 33 | #1,340 |
| 1955 | — | — | 28 | #1,464 |
| 1954 | — | — | 22 | #1,636 |
| 1953 | — | — | 22 | #1,642 |
| 1952 | — | — | 17 | #1,875 |
| 1951 | — | — | 23 | #1,560 |
| 1950 | — | — | 17 | #1,832 |
| 1949 | — | — | 20 | #1,675 |
| 1948 | — | — | 23 | #1,526 |
| 1947 | — | — | 24 | #1,524 |
| 1946 | — | — | 24 | #1,443 |
| 1945 | — | — | 19 | #1,546 |
| 1944 | — | — | 17 | #1,698 |
| 1943 | — | — | 34 | #1,174 |
| 1942 | — | — | 19 | #1,639 |
| 1941 | — | — | 31 | #1,192 |
| 1940 | — | — | 20 | #1,529 |
| 1939 | — | — | 21 | #1,462 |
| 1938 | — | — | 22 | #1,447 |
| 1937 | — | — | 20 | #1,541 |
| 1936 | — | — | 12 | #2,084 |
| 1935 | — | — | 28 | #1,275 |
| 1934 | — | — | 24 | #1,394 |
| 1933 | — | — | 28 | #1,252 |
| 1932 | — | — | 20 | #1,599 |
| 1931 | — | — | 25 | #1,402 |
| 1930 | — | — | 26 | #1,437 |
| 1929 | — | — | 21 | #1,625 |
| 1928 | — | — | 28 | #1,391 |
| 1927 | — | — | 32 | #1,300 |
| 1926 | — | — | 34 | #1,246 |
| 1925 | — | — | 37 | #1,168 |
| 1924 | — | — | 29 | #1,387 |
| 1923 | — | — | 21 | #1,707 |
| 1922 | — | — | 39 | #1,146 |
| 1921 | — | — | 42 | #1,091 |
| 1920 | — | — | 25 | #1,512 |
| 1919 | — | — | 29 | #1,329 |
| 1918 | — | — | 34 | #1,198 |
| 1917 | — | — | 28 | #1,299 |
| 1916 | — | — | 30 | #1,214 |
| 1915 | — | — | 35 | #1,089 |
| 1914 | — | — | 27 | #1,106 |
| 1913 | — | — | 21 | #1,119 |
| 1912 | — | — | 17 | #1,143 |
| 1911 | — | — | 12 | #996 |
| 1910 | — | — | 10 | #1,059 |
| 1907 | — | — | 8 | #1,018 |
| 1905 | — | — | 9 | #852 |
| 1904 | — | — | 5 | #1,249 |
| 1903 | — | — | 6 | #1,036 |
| 1901 | — | — | 5 | #1,087 |
| 1899 | — | — | 5 | #1,085 |
| 1896 | — | — | 5 | #1,133 |
| 1895 | — | — | 7 | #898 |
| 1894 | — | — | 7 | #881 |
| 1891 | — | — | 5 | #1,002 |
| 1887 | — | — | 5 | #960 |
| 1883 | — | — | 6 | #816 |
| 1880 | — | — | 9 | #645 |
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).