Entry № 1726 · Irish origin

Callahan Callahan — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KAL-uh-han /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Irish
Meaning
"Strife / contention (Dirty Harry Callahan)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Irish)

A name that means "strife / contention (dirty harry callahan)".

Callahan is from the Irish Ó Ceallacháin (descendant of Ceallachán, from ceallach meaning strife or contention). John C. Tony Callahan — modern boxing trainer. Sara Callahan — modern American journalist. Morgan Asset Management.

Strife / contention.

The name in its native script.

Callahan
Transliteration
Callahan
Pronunciation
/ ˈkæl.ə.hæn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Callahan stands.

Callahan does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Callahans before her.

Real people
Mary Callahan Erdoes
American CEO J.P. Morgan Asset Management.
born 1967
In fiction
Harry Callahan
Eastwood's Dirty Harry.
1971

Names connected to Callahan.

The number behind Callahan.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Callahan reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.