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Calen

The boy's name Calen has been in the national records since 1977, with 2,720 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 3,314th. About 2,700 Calens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 20.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Calen boys named Calen

By the numbers

Total US births
2,720
Estimated living today
2,700
Median age today
20
Peak year
2011
Best rank
1,533rd
Rank in 2025
3,314th
First recorded
1977
Girls / boys
226 / 2,494

How old the living Calens are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,720 babies given the name since 1977, about 2,700 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 1,200 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2005 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.

Where Calen is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Calen is most concentrated in California (3.2×), Texas (2.6×), Georgia (2.0×), Illinois (1.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2011

The most popular boys’ names the year Calen peaked:

All the names of 2011

Calen elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Calen 92 2,693rd
France boys Calen 25 6,429th
Scotland boys Calen 3 687th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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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.