Calan
#3,390 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Calan has been given to 994 babies in the U.S. since 1984. In 2025 it ranked #3,390 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 51 recorded.
Babies named Calan, 2025
1 in 97,500
Calan over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Calan?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 97,500
- 34 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 50,200
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #3,390
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 67,586 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Calan sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 67,586 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Calan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Calans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Calan was born before 2012 — so the typical Calan is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 34.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 80.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 974
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 34.8% of all recorded uses (339).
Is Calan rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +420
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −538
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +409
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.21×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 66.7%
- Peak was 2018 (51)
- Years since peak
- 7
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.6% average annual change
Spellings of Calan
Calan is not the most common spelling — Dylan is, with 18.4% against Calan's 0.04%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Calan is used
Across 1910–2025, Calan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,036,867 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Indiana1 in —
- 3Kansas1 in —
- 4North Carolina1 in —
- 5Pennsylvania1 in —
- 6Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Calan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Calan around the world
Where Calan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1996–2025#3,256in 2025
- Scotland1992–2023#728in 2023
- Ireland2011–2011#730in 2011
- Canada1999–2021#2,357in 2021
- South Australia1977–2013#754in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Calan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Calan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Calan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.