Calen is a first name for boys, occasionally also given to girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Calen is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 boys have been named Calen. In the SmartGenius ranking, Calen is #2,038 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Calen.
In fact, the name Calen hardly fits the trend of first names for boys. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Calen wasn't given at all (or at least less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), but by 1987, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 1,020, 73 parents chose it in 1987 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Calen, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Calen was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Calen a few times. Among all newborn boys, it ranked 2,160, for a total of 57 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it didn't appear at all for a many years. As Calen seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
The odds of having a man or boy named Calen in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Calen is registered in 17 states, among which are Alabama, California, Colorado, Florida or Georgia. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Calen live in California, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 104,690 men and boys in California for their name before you meet one who answers with Calen.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for boys’ names. This is because 5.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.
With five letters, the name Calen is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
With 5.2% of all boys' names that begin with a C, this first letter is thus much more common than the average of all letters. And which boys’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Charles.
If your name is Calen and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Calen, you can simply say:
Cat
Apple
Lion
Elephant
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Calen
Calen
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
A
L
E
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
C
A
L
E
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Calen sounds like this:
