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How popular is the name Callan?
Births per year, rank history and how many Callans are alive today.
Callan (male) is an uncommon boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 650th in 2025 with 56 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 1998, when 89 babies were given the name, the 296th most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 1314 in 2020 before climbing back to the 650th place it holds today. Numbers have been rising in recent years. Callan is one spelling of a name also recorded as Calen and Callen; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Callan you are most likely to meet is around 28 years old - or else around 12: the name has two living generations. Half of all Callans born in England and Wales are between 10 and 29, and there are at least 2,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Callan - on average, only one in every 152 such rooms contains a Callan.
How many babies are named Callan each year?
Includes all spellings: Callan, Calen, Callen. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Callan spelling rank?
Where does the Calen spelling rank?
Where does the Callen spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Callan most popular?
Callan peaked in 1998, when 102 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Callan?
At least 2,000 people named Callan in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Callan?
Most living Callans are between 10 and 29; the most common age is about 28. There is a second cluster around 12.
Is Callan becoming more or less popular?
Rising: numbers have been climbing in recent years.