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Calen

#3,322 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Calen has been given to 2,720 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #3,322 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 103 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 92% boys, 8% girls all-time.

Babies named Calen, 2025

1 in 94,700

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Calen over time

In 2025, Calen went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19772025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Calen: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Calen means

Calen is a given name.

The naming story behind Calen

Wikidata records Calen as a given name. The entity identifier is Q135648646, 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, 2,494 boys were recorded with the name Calen between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 103 in 2011; its best national rank was #1,176 in 1987.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,766 in 2020 to #3,322 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,214 in 2015 to #3,322 in 2025.

In the United States, 226 girls were recorded with the name Calen between 1985 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2001; its best national rank was #7,375 in 2001.

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 Calen?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 94,700
35 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 48,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,322
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
65,655 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Calen 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 65,655 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Calen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Calens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Calen was born before 2006 — so the typical Calen is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
28.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
63.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,494
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 28.7% of all recorded uses (716).

Is Calen 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
−565
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−556
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,108
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.57×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
34.0%
Peak was 2011 (103)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,176
1987

Spellings of Calen

Calen is not the most common spelling — Alan is, with 10.5% against Calen's 0.07%.

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 Calen is used

Across 1910–2025, Calen was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 227,874 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Colorado1 in 100,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in 100,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 100,000
  5. 5Alabama1 in —
  6. 6Florida1 in —
  7. 7Iowa1 in —
  8. 8Illinois1 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. Calen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Calen around the world

Where Calen 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
    2013–2013
    #687
    in 2013
  • France
    2013–2020
    #6,429
    in 2020
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #2,747
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1977–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Calen by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,322
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 556
Best rank ever
#1,176
1987
Peak year
2011
103 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,494
Count in 2025
35

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,375
2001
Peak year
2001
14 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
226
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Calen

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

CallenCalumCalinCalderCalanCalixCalobTalenDalenTylenRylenNolenCalemValenKalenCalvertKylenHalenCaleWaylenZaylenAlenKallenTaylen

Names with a curve like Calen

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

JairusFaisalSaadKamranAramisVikramKalaniMikhailAjMykelMahmoudAshwin

Sibling names for Calen

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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