girls:
17 births since 2020
#5699 (0th percentile)
boys:
154 births since 2018
#4432 (3rd percentile)
overall:
171 births since 2018
#7568 (2nd percentile)
The name Calihan is the #7,568 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 171 recorded births since 2018. This represents the 2.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,432 (3.3% percentile) for all time with 154 births since 2018. For girls, it ranks #5,699 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 17 births since 2020.
Calihan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2018 (2018 for boys and 2020 for girls).
The name Calihan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 90.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Calihan reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 3.8% percentile (ranked #895) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 21 births per million (ranked 3.8% percentile). In recent years, the popularity of this name for boys has remained relatively stable. Currently, Calihan ranks #891 for boys (2.2% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 64.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Calihan reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #935) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Calihan".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Calihan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 40.8% confident that Calihan is pronounced as KA-lih-han, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KA-lih-HAN, at 26.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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