Callen

What Callen means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Callen yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #516 vs #2,952 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Callen?

US: Steady: #520 in 2015, #516 now. England & Wales: Falling: down from #996 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2023, when 687 boys got the name (#450 that year). First in the US records in 1954.

How common

• About 1 in 2,950 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 38,848 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 3,274 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in IA (1.3 per 1,000 boys), WI (1.24 per 1,000 boys), ID (0.93 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Callen is #516 in the US and #2952 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 96.8% of US babies named Callen were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Callan1,917 US · 56 E&W
• Collin613 US
• Kellen202 US
• Cullen194 US · 7 E&W
• Caelan43 US · 119 E&W
• Kallen150 US · 3 E&W
• Kallan82 US
• Kalen71 US · 5 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Callen

Boys

• Emmett#121Diminutive of Emma, meaning “entire”^*
• Jameson#137Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #137 vs #1,093 in 2025
• Jensen#282Editor’s note Up from #395 in 2015 to #282 in 2025 in the US
• Oakley#454“oak + woodland clearing, glade”^*
• Remington#307“settlement by the boundary stream”^*
• Graham#120“gravel + homestead”^*

For a sister

• Quinn#97“descendant of Chief”^*
• Scarlett#32Editor’s note Down from #22 in 2015 to #32 in 2025 in the US
• Sawyer#290“one who saws”^*
• Blakely#191Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #191 vs #1,407 in 2025
• Leighton#342“leek + settlement”^*
• Everleigh#194“wild boar + woodland clearing”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Callen’s. Rank is US 2025.