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How popular is “Calen” in the USA?

Number of people named “Calen” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Calen” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Calen” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Calen” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Calen” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Calen” by birth year

This chart shows how “Calen” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1977 12 0.000003778 12 -100%
1978 8 0.000002521 8 -100%
1979 9 0.000002705 9 -100%
1980 12 0.000003484 12 -100%
1981 14 0.000004047 14 -100%
1982 18 0.000005131 18 -100%
1983 32 0.00000924 32 -100%
1984 31 0.000008886 31 -100%
1985 62 0.000017371 7 55 -77%
1986 48 0.000013494 5 43 -79%
1987 73 0.000020246 6 67 -84%
1988 55 0.000014885 7 48 -75%
1989 52 0.000013526 52 -100%
1990 42 0.000010626 8 34 -62%
1991 46 0.000011809 8 38 -65%
1992 44 0.000011455 9 35 -59%
1993 56 0.000014853 10 46 -64%
1994 66 0.000017753 11 55 -67%
1995 64 0.000017476 8 56 -75%
1996 66 0.000018096 11 55 -67%
1997 50 0.00001379 7 43 -72%
1998 56 0.000015225 8 48 -71%
1999 55 0.00001489 10 45 -64%
2000 72 0.000019048 12 60 -67%
2001 74 0.000019768 14 60 -62%
2002 69 0.000018458 11 58 -68%
2003 59 0.000015517 11 48 -63%
2004 67 0.000017535 9 58 -73%
2005 69 0.000017946 12 57 -65%
2006 82 0.000020727 5 77 -88%
2007 98 0.000024514 8 90 -84%
2008 85 0.000021625 11 74 -74%
2009 76 0.000019894 8 68 -79%
2010 96 0.000025976 96 -100%
2011 108 0.000029526 5 103 -91%
2012 92 0.000025155 92 -100%
2013 79 0.00002167 79 -100%
2014 69 0.000018617 69 -100%
2015 61 0.000016482 61 -100%
2016 66 0.00001799 66 -100%
2017 42 0.000011744 42 -100%
2018 58 0.000016497 58 -100%
2019 50 0.000014405 50 -100%
2020 44 0.000013171 44 -100%
2021 43 0.000012692 43 -100%
2022 57 0.000016848 5 52 -82%
2023 51 0.000015402 51 -100%
2024 47 0.00001412 47 -100%

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