Cullen
Cullen is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 187 births. Its best rank was 413th, in 2010.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1870.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 2010679 births
- Best rank
- #413in 2010
- Since 1880
- 16,394people given the name
The story in the numbers
16,394 boys have been named Cullen in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2010, with 679 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2004, and the 2010s alone account for 31%. It has spent 54 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Cullen | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 20 | |
| 1890s | 29 | |
| 1900s | 33 | |
| 1910s | 243 | |
| 1920s | 308 | |
| 1930s | 226 | |
| 1940s | 231 | |
| 1950s | 250 | |
| 1960s | 323 | |
| 1970s | 647 | |
| 1980s | 1,183 | |
| 1990s | 3,219 | |
| 2000s | 3,240 | |
| 2010s | 5,066 | |
| 2020s | 1,376 |
In 2010, its biggest year
Cullen was the 413th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2010 were Jacob, Ethan, Michael, Jayden and William. See all of 2010.
Names that rose and fell with Cullen
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
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What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.