Calin
Calin is a boy's name that peaked in 2011, when it was the 2,077th most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 6,143rd. About 1,400 Calins are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 20.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Calin boys named Calin
Girls and boys called Calin
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 224 girls and 1,166 boys in all, and in 2023 the split was 0 to 28.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 32 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,390
- Estimated living today
- 1,400
- Median age today
- 20
- Peak year
- 2011
- Best rank
- 2,077th
- Rank in 2025
- 6,143rd
- First recorded
- 1960
- Girls / boys
- 224 / 1,166
How old the living Calins are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,390 babies given the name since 1960, about 1,400 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 590 of them are children and 4 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.
Notable Calins
- Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu (born 1952)60th Prime Minister of Romania
- Călin Georgescu (born 1962)Romanian politician
- Călin Peter Netzer (born 1975)Romanian film director
People named Calin with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Calin is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Calin is most concentrated in California (4.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2011
The most popular boys’ names the year Calin peaked:
Calin elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Calin | 71 | 2,734th |
| France boys | Calin | 30 | 6,807th |
| Scotland boys | Calin | 6 | 535th |
| Ireland boys | Calin | 3 | 755th |
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.
Where Calin lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 230 men called Calin were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guadalajara | Calin | 9 | 0.062 | 860 |
| Cuenca | Calin | 5 | 0.050 | 1,056 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Calin | 14 | 0.045 | 1,294 |
| Rioja, La | Calin | 6 | 0.037 | 1,385 |
| Lleida | Calin | 7 | 0.030 | 1,847 |
| Ciudad Real | Calin | 7 | 0.029 | 1,362 |
Listed in 15 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 37 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Calin against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.