Caldwell
About 636 American babies have been named Caldwell since 1906, most of them around 1918. In 2025 it ranked 5,861st. About 260 Caldwells are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 21.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Caldwell
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 636
- Estimated living today
- 260
- Median age today
- 21
- Peak year
- 1918
- Best rank
- 1,648th
- Rank in 2025
- 5,861st
- First recorded
- 1906
How old the living Caldwells are
born that year still alive today
Of the 636 babies given the name since 1906, about 260 are alive — 41 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2004 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Caldwells
- Caldwell Esselstyn (born 1933)American physician, author and rower
- Caldwell Jones (1950–2014)American basketball player
People named Caldwell with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Caldwell is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Caldwell is most concentrated in North Carolina (24.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1918
The most popular boys’ names the year Caldwell peaked:
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Caldwell against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.