Meaning and history
From a surname, either Cullen 1 or Cullen 2, it became a little more popular after Stephenie Meyer’s novel Twilight (2005), featuring the vampire Edward Cullen, was adapted into a film in 2008.
20062006: 260 births, rank #792
2007: 286 births, rank #767
2008: 283 births, rank #782
2009: 562 births, rank #485
2010: 679 births, rank #413
20112011: 568 births, rank #472
2012: 474 births, rank #549
2013: 447 births, rank #574
2014: 447 births, rank #604
2015: 492 births, rank #570
20162016: 529 births, rank #546
2017: 556 births, rank #519
2018: 464 births, rank #590
2019: 411 births, rank #650
2020: 370 births, rank #688
20212021: 342 births, rank #745
2022: 258 births, rank #901
2023: 219 births, rank #1,003
2024: 189 births, rank #1,126
20252025: 194 births, rank #1,108
Cullen moved from #745 to #901 for boys between 2021 and 2022. Its highest annual birth count came in 2010, with 679 births.