Caleen
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Caleen has been given to 106 babies in the U.S. since 1948. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1969, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Caleen, 1994
1 in 464,000
Caleen 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Caleen?
Caleen had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1994, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1994
- 1 in 464,000
- 8 of 3,715,972 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 223,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1994
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 321,966 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Caleen sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1994 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 321,966 children born in 1994 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Caleen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Caleens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Caleen was born before 1963 — so the typical Caleen is around 62 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 37.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 27.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 94
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 37.7% of all recorded uses (40).
Is Caleen 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1969 (9)
- Years since peak
- 56
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.7% average annual change
Spellings of Caleen
Caleen is not the most common spelling — Eileen is, with 24.2% against Caleen's 0.01%.
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.
Caleen around the world
Where Caleen 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.
- France2004–2021#6,882in 2021
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Caleen by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Caleen
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Caleen
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.