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Calloway

The boy's name Calloway has been in the national records since 1912, with 857 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 1,466th. About 800 Calloways are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 3.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Calloway boys named Calloway

Girls and boys called Calloway

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

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Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 138 girls and 719 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 23 to 121.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 11 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
857
Estimated living today
800
Median age today
3
Peak year
2025
Best rank
1,466th
Rank in 2025
1,466th
First recorded
1912
Girls / boys
138 / 719

How old the living Calloways are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 857 babies given the name since 1912, about 800 are alive — 93 in every hundred. Roughly 760 of them are children and 3 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2022 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 Calloway is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Calloway is most concentrated in Tennessee (10.6×), Texas (4.4×).

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

Names of 2025

The most popular boys’ names the year Calloway peaked:

All the names of 2025

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Calloway 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.