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Calder

#1,731 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Calder has been given to 2,203 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #1,731 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 120 recorded.

Babies named Calder, 2025

1 in 35,300

Calder over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Calder: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Calder means

Calder is a given name.

The naming story behind Calder

Wikidata records Calder as a given name. The entity identifier is Q61638869, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,166 boys were recorded with the name Calder between 1980 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 120 in 2016; its best national rank was #1,444 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,768 in 2020 to #1,731 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,856 in 2015 to #1,731 in 2025.

In the United States, 37 girls were recorded with the name Calder between 2005 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2005; its best national rank was #13,258 in 2005.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Calder?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 35,300
94 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 18,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,731
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
24,447 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Calder sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 24,447 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Calder. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Calders were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Calder was born before 2014 — so the typical Calder is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,166
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 39.3% of all recorded uses (852).

Is Calder 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
+256
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+37
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+125
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.19×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
78.3%
Peak was 2016 (120)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,444
2016

Spellings of Calder

Calder is not the most common spelling — Walter is, with 39.0% against Calder's 0.13%.

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 Calder is used

Across 2016–2025, Calder was most concentrated in Washington — about 1 in 11,111 boys, against 1 in 25,726 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

19 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Washington1 in 11,111
  2. 2Colorado1 in 12,500
  3. 3Idaho1 in 14,286
  4. 4New York1 in 16,667
  5. 5Oregon1 in 16,667
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 20,000
  7. 7California1 in 25,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 25,000

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.

Calder around the world

Where Calder 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 & Wales
    1996–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2010–2023
    #533
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,698
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1980–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Calder

People whose public names include Calder, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Calder by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,731
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 37
Best rank ever
#1,444
2016
Peak year
2016
120 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,166
Count in 2025
94

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#13,258
2005
Peak year
2005
7 that year
First recorded
2005
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
37
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Calder

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

CalenCalvertCalumCalinWylderVanderCallenCalanSanderCallanCalixRhyderCalobLanderCalianHaiderCallumElderCalixtoEnderNaderCaliphCalemAlder

Names with a curve like Calder

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Calder, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

HussainGavrielAamirYasinAnasJessiahJourneySaifJiovanniMahdiAmmarRogan

Sibling names for Calder

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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