Cullan
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cullan has been given to 329 babies in the U.S. since 1980. 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 1994, with 22 recorded.
Babies named Cullan, 2019
1 in 579,000
Cullan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Cullan?
Cullan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2019
- 1 in 579,000
- 6 of 3,472,229 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 299,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2019
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 401,129 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cullan sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 401,129 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cullan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Cullans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cullan was born before 2000 — so the typical Cullan is around 25 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 36.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 76.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 329
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 36.2% of all recorded uses (119).
Is Cullan 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 1994 (22)
- Years since peak
- 31
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 44.7% average annual change
Spellings of Cullan
Cullan is not the most common spelling — Julian is, with 50.6% against Cullan'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.
Cullan around the world
Where Cullan 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 & Wales1996–2010#4,678in 2010
- Scotland2006–2006#584in 2006
- Ireland2023–2023#770in 2023
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and Central Statistics Office. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0.
Cullan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Cullan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Cullan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.