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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Challen

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

71

peak year 1992

More common than

57%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1992
11 births
Best rank
#4,928
in 1992
First recorded
1990
#7,314 that year
Last recorded
2009
no later published record
Average birth year
1996
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
10 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 199211#4,928Peak
  2. 199310#5,409
  3. 19949#5,934
  4. 19997#7,989
  5. 20097#10,052

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #4,928 in 1992 · peak births 11 in 1992

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 93% boys■ 7% girls

71 boys · 5 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Challen has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.