Calin
#6,186 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Calin has been given to 1,390 babies in the U.S. since 1960. In 2025 it ranked #6,186 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 64 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 84% boys, 16% girls all-time.
Babies named Calin, 2025
1 in 237,000
Calin 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Calin over time
In 2025, Calin went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
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.
How common is Calin?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 237,000
- 14 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 122,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #6,186
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 164,137 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Calin 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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Calin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Calins were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Calin was born before 2007 — so the typical Calin is around 18 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 32.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 65.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,166
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 32.3% of all recorded uses (377).
Is Calin 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
- −916
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,894
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −3,260
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.35×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 21.9%
- Peak was 2011 (64)
- Years since peak
- 14
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.5% average annual change
Spellings of Calin
Calin is not the most common spelling — Alan is, with 17.4% against Calin's 0.06%.
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 Calin is used
Across 1910–2025, Calin was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 993,108 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Florida1 in —
- 3Georgia1 in —
- 4Pennsylvania1 in —
- 5Texas1 in —
- 6Washington1 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. Calin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Calin around the world
Where Calin 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 & Wales2005–2022#4,002in 2022
- Scotland2005–2008#638in 2008
- Ireland2021–2021#755in 2021
- France2010–2024#6,807in 2024
- Canada1991–2017#2,091in 2017
- South Australia1993–2010#754in 2010
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Calin by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Calin
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Calin
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.