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Cullen

Pronounced /ˈkʌlən/

Rank in 2024
#1,132
Born in 2024
187
Peak year
2010 · #413
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 187 boys were named Cullen, about 1 in every 9,173.
  • It peaked in 2010 with 679 babies, ranked #413.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 16,394 boys have been named Cullen since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Cullen per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. <0.1
    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. 0.1
    Millennials
  6. 0.2
    Gen Z
  7. 0.2
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 535 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Silent: 415 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Boomers: 501 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 908 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Millennials: 3,172 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Gen Z: 6,092 babies, 0.19 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 4,722 babies, 0.22 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Scottish Gaelic cuilinn.

  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/ˈkʌlən/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Cullen, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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