Meaning not yet researched.
Cali: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 518 in 2025. Its best rank was #202 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #202 in 2014; #574 in 2025. About 97% of babies named Cali in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#574 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #202.
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Cali: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 518 girls in 2025. Peak: #202 in 2014 · most girls in one year: 1,664 (2014).
In 2025, 518 US girls were named Cali, making it the 574th most common girls’ name of the year, down 81 places from #493 in 2024. That is 104 fewer than the 622 girls named Cali in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #202, reached in 2014. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,664. For comparison, it was #232 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cali in 63 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1959 with 6 babies. In all, 23,745 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 1.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 11,708 babies named Cali.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 9,458 US girls were named Cali; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 1,217. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,103 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Cali ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #187 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Callie (70,827 babies since 1880), Kali (33,438 babies since 1880), Kayli (7,134 babies since 1880) and Kalia (5,870 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Caliah, Calea and Caliya are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Caliah (415), Calea (227), Caliya (225), Caely (63), Caleo (47).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Cali in the open dataset we use.
Cali is listed as a nickname for Kalli.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 22 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 14 | #187 | #113 |
| Louisiana | 20 | #214 | #117 |
| West Virginia | 5 | #322 | #267 |
| Florida | 50 | #368 | #181 |
| South Carolina | 13 | #379 | #133 |
| Kentucky | 10 | #418 | #160 |
| Georgia | 26 | #433 | #137 |
| Ohio | 25 | #449 | #166 |
| North Carolina | 22 | #494 | #183 |
| Arkansas | 6 | #499 | #158 |
| Tennessee | 15 | #503 | #159 |
| Michigan | 15 | #523 | #224 |
| Alabama | 9 | #536 | #194 |
| New Jersey | 14 | #543 | #286 |
| California | 58 | #557 | #194 |
| Maryland | 9 | #558 | #205 |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #571 | #303 |
| Virginia | 13 | #580 | #178 |
| Missouri | 9 | #603 | #201 |
| Utah | 6 | #621 | #460 |
| Washington | 10 | #627 | #415 |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #639 | #307 |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #657 | #231 |
| Illinois | 14 | #676 | #266 |
| New York | 24 | #681 | #277 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #726 | #286 |
| Indiana | 8 | #737 | #223 |
| Texas | 39 | #766 | #356 |
| Colorado | 5 | #935 | #450 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 518 | #574 | 15 | #5,899 |
| 2024 | 622 | #493 | 14 | #6,242 |
| 2023 | 683 | #450 | 26 | #4,131 |
| 2022 | 844 | #374 | 27 | #4,002 |
| 2021 | 969 | #336 | 25 | #4,130 |
| 2020 | 1,089 | #294 | 51 | #2,516 |
| 2019 | 1,217 | #274 | 35 | #3,270 |
| 2018 | 1,188 | #279 | 36 | #3,180 |
| 2017 | 1,128 | #288 | 25 | #4,125 |
| 2016 | 1,200 | #264 | 32 | #3,453 |
| 2015 | 1,437 | #232 | 30 | #3,601 |
| 2014 | 1,664 | #202 | 24 | #4,158 |
| 2013 | 1,133 | #280 | 12 | #6,664 |
| 2012 | 946 | #331 | 8 | #8,990 |
| 2011 | 816 | #389 | 12 | #6,650 |
| 2010 | 757 | #416 | 8 | #8,927 |
| 2009 | 732 | #435 | 7 | #10,028 |
| 2008 | 740 | #428 | — | — |
| 2007 | 664 | #489 | — | — |
| 2006 | 482 | #605 | 10 | #7,510 |
| 2005 | 450 | #624 | — | — |
| 2004 | 346 | #754 | — | — |
| 2003 | 317 | #779 | — | — |
| 2002 | 284 | #819 | — | — |
| 2001 | 257 | #891 | — | — |
| 2000 | 277 | #817 | — | — |
| 1999 | 266 | #816 | — | — |
| 1998 | 235 | #897 | — | — |
| 1997 | 201 | #971 | — | — |
| 1996 | 171 | #1,080 | — | — |
| 1995 | 141 | #1,216 | — | — |
| 1994 | 111 | #1,434 | — | — |
| 1993 | 128 | #1,312 | — | — |
| 1992 | 128 | #1,314 | — | — |
| 1991 | 122 | #1,344 | — | — |
| 1990 | 148 | #1,164 | — | — |
| 1989 | 132 | #1,220 | — | — |
| 1988 | 76 | #1,688 | — | — |
| 1987 | 96 | #1,398 | — | — |
| 1986 | 96 | #1,352 | — | — |
| 1985 | 128 | #1,128 | — | — |
| 1984 | 46 | #2,155 | — | — |
| 1983 | 47 | #2,098 | — | — |
| 1982 | 43 | #2,292 | — | — |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,636 | — | — |
| 1980 | 29 | #3,007 | — | — |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,248 | 6 | #5,446 |
| 1978 | 30 | #2,748 | — | — |
| 1977 | 23 | #3,280 | — | — |
| 1976 | 22 | #3,196 | — | — |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,279 | — | — |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,878 | — | — |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,654 | — | — |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,524 | — | — |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,684 | — | — |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,438 | — | — |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,499 | — | — |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,100 | — | — |
| 1966 | 6 | #5,867 | — | — |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,635 | — | — |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,045 | — | — |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,684 | — | — |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,624 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).