Calihan
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- KAL-uh-han
- Origin
- Irish
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,301 for boys
- US rank, 2025
- #4,538 for boys
Calihan is a boys' name of Irish origin. In 2025 it ranked 4,301st for boys in the UK (4 babies) and 4,538th for boys in the US (22 babies).
What does Calihan mean?
Irish: spelling of Callahan, from O Ceallachain
Spelling of Callahan, an Irish surname from Ceallachan, a 10th-century king of Munster.
Is Calihan a girl's or a boy's name?
Calihan is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 boys in the UK and 7 girls and 22 boys in the US.
How popular is Calihan in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,301among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 4about 1 in 75,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 4 boys in the UK were named Calihan, making it the 4,301st most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,803rd. Its busiest year was 2023, with 4 boys.
In 2025, 17 boys in the UK were given Calihan or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,396, up from #4,301 for this spelling alone.
Among boys in 2025, it was 4,212th in England and Wales.
Calihan in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,301 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,335 |
| 2022 | 1 | #6,413 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 3 | #4,803 |
How popular is Calihan in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,538among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 22about 1 in 78,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 31% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 22 boys in the US were named Calihan, making it the 4,538th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,024th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 40 boys. It first appears in the records in 2018. 7 girls were also named Calihan in 2025 (11,928th for girls).
2025 had fewer boys named Calihan than any year since 2019.
Half of all the boys named Calihan in the US since 1880 were born between 2020 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,693 boys in the US were given Calihan or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #232, up from #4,538 for this spelling alone.
In 2022, 13% of the babies named Calihan in the US were girls.
Calihan in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #4,538 |
| 2024 | 25 | #4,197 |
| 2023 | 25 | #4,216 |
| 2022 | 34 | #3,410 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,020 |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,024 |
| 2019 | 12 | #6,772 |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,150 |
Nicknames for Calihan
- Cal 10 boys in the UK in 2025
Names like Calihan
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Conan Conlan Caelan Keegan Callan Brogan Ronan Declan Keelan Rogan Keenan Conn
Other spellings of Calihan
Names related to Calihan
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Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Calihan: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/calihan, updated 20 October 2026.