Callen

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Callen: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Callen: Recorded since 1996, it reached #363 in 2017, and it stood at #432 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
35times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#363highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2020
1997	#2859
1998	#1055
1999	#1664
2000	#2142
2001	#3134
2002	#3225
2003	#3467
2004	#2070
2006	#2870
2007	#3589
2009	#2837
2010	#1407
2011	#1909
2012	#1270
2013	#1247
2014	#1223
2015	#996
2016	#946
2017	#1146
2018	#1158
2019	#2104
2020	#1314
2021	#1688
2022	#1268
2023	#2007
2024	#2088

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 27 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #432 among boys in Scotland, #785 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #2088 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2020 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2088 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Callen appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 27 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 346 births with the name.

Callen across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Callen's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2020 (1996)	#946 (2016)	#2088 (2024)	27 of 29	346 (1996–2024)	31 (2016)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#503 (2015)	#503 (2015)	#785 (2024)	6 of 10	27 (2015–2024)	6 (2015)

Callen by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Callen in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	28	4 of 10	7
2000s	36	8 of 10	5
2010sbusiest	206	10 of 10	21
2020s	76	5 of 10	15

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 21 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Callen appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #363 in Northern Ireland in 2017.

Callen's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#2088	11	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2007	11	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1268	21	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1688	14	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1314	19	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2104	10	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1158	23	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1146	24	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#946	31	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#996	29	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1223	21	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1247	20	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1270	20	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1909	11	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1407	17	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2837	6	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3589	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2870	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2070	7	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#3467	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#3225	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#3134	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2142	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1664	7	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1055	13	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2020	5	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	male	#363	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#785	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#516	6	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#572	5	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#631	4	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#713	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#503	6	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#432	7	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 27 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #363, first reached in 2017.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 31 births, registered in England and Wales in 2016.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2015, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Callan · #36, 30y
Calleigh · #430, 13y
Calli · #1843, 28y
Callia · #2673, 17y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Timur · #362, 30y
Clay · #365, 30y
Kaila · #365, 29y
Aliya · #367, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Anna-May · #363, 17y
Arda · #363, 26y
Brianne · #363, 24y
Karlie · #363, 26y

Callen was ranked #363 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2017. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Callen and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Callen without appearing here.

Callen moved ahead of

Arne Compare
In 2014 they stood at #3589 and #3095 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #996 and #4747.
Tayla Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2837 and #2318 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #1247 and #4685.
Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2007 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2088 and #5119.
Shannon Compare
In 2012 they stood at #3589 and #3589 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #1247 and #3822.

Moved ahead of Callen

Aksel Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1158 and #1382 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #2104 and #1253.
Harper Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1268 and #1609 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2007 and #1207.
Hunter Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1664 and #2425 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #2142 and #1425.
Matheo Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1268 and #2018 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2007 and #1363.

Moved the opposite way to Callen

Kim Compare
Between 1996 and 2015 in England and Wales · Boys, Callen went from #2020 to #996 while Kim went from #1168 to #4747.
Tayla Compare
Between 1996 and 2015 in England and Wales · Boys, Callen went from #2020 to #996 while Tayla went from #1458 to #4747.

Moved the same way as Callen

Matheo Compare
Between 2007 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Callen went from #3589 to #2088 and Matheo from #4333 to #1517.
Ashleigh Compare
Between 1996 and 2009 in England and Wales · Boys, Callen went from #2020 to #2837 and Ashleigh from #402 to #3227.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #363 in Northern Ireland in 2017. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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Popularity journey

Callen across 2 official records

Callen by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Callen across 2 official records

Callen by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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