Callihan
#11,121 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Callihan has been given to 22 babies in the U.S. since 2024. In 2025 it ranked #11,121 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 8 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 68% girls, 32% boys all-time.
Babies named Callihan, 2025
1 in 414,000
Callihan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Callihan over time
In 2025, Callihan went to 100% girls and 0% 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 Callihan?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 201,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #11,121
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Callihan 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Callihan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Callihans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Callihan was born before 2025 — so the typical Callihan is around 0 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 15
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (15).
Is Callihan 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
- +1,284
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (8)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Callihan
Callihan is not the most common spelling — Callan is, with 48.0% against Callihan's 0.49%.
Callihan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Callihan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Callihan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.