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How popular is the name Callum?
Births per year, rank history and how many Callums are alive today.
Callum (male), once a common boys' name, is now an uncommon choice for new babies in England and Wales, ranked 251st in 2025 with 186 given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 1998, when 5,600 babies were given the name, the 8th most popular that year. It has declined since 1998; the 2025 figure is roughly 3% of its peak. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 72,000 babies have been named Callum in England and Wales since 1994. Figures before 1996 are estimates. Callum is one spelling of a name also recorded as Calum and Kallum; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Callum you are most likely to meet is around 28 years old. Half of all Callums born in England and Wales are between 20 and 31, and there are at least 100,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 28% chance that at least one of them will be called Callum.
How many babies are named Callum each year?
Includes all spellings: Callum, Calum, Kallum. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Callum spelling rank?
Where does the Calum spelling rank?
Where does the Kallum 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 Callum most popular?
Callum peaked in 1998, when 6,252 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Callum?
At least 100,000 people named Callum in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Callum?
Most living Callums are between 20 and 31; the most common age is about 28.
Is Callum becoming more or less popular?
Declining: recent figures are a fraction of the 1998 peak.