girls:
106 births since 1974
#5610 (2nd percentile)
boys:
16.2k births since 1880
#910 (80th percentile)
overall:
16.3k births since 1880
#2026 (74th percentile)
The name Cullen is the #2,026 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 16,310 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 73.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 73.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #910 (80.2% percentile) for all time with 16,204 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,610 (1.8% percentile) for all time with 106 births since 1974.
Cullen has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1974 for girls). Birth data for Cullen is available in 127 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (127 years for boys and 18 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Cullen has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Cullen reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 57.2% percentile (ranked #377) with 331 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 331 births per million (ranked 57.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Cullen ranks #698 for boys (23.4% percentile) with 120 births per million, which is 36.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Cullen reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #821) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2013, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2015.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cullen".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Cullen. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Cullen is pronounced as KUH-luhn, which has 2 syllables.
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