Meaning not yet researched.
Calia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 167 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,335 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Calia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,335 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Calia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 167 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,335 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 167 (2025).
In 2025, 167 US girls were named Calia, making it the 1,335th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,338 places from #2,673 in 2024. That is 102 more than the 65 girls named Calia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,335, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 167. For comparison, it was #3,220 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Calia in 33 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1993 with 5 babies. In all, 1,259 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 472 babies named Calia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 687 US girls were named Calia; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 167. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,624 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Calia ranked highest in South Carolina in 2025, at #707 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), Cali (23,745 babies since 1880) and Kalia (5,870 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Calia in the open dataset we use.
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 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 6 | #707 | — |
| Alabama | 6 | #734 | — |
| Illinois | 12 | #759 | — |
| Florida | 18 | #872 | — |
| Ohio | 10 | #898 | — |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #902 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,216 | — |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,304 | — |
| California | 18 | #1,330 | #3,093 |
| Texas | 17 | #1,416 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,427 | — |
| New York | 5 | #2,150 | #2,019 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 167 | #1,335 | — | — |
| 2024 | 65 | #2,673 | — | — |
| 2023 | 63 | #2,735 | — | — |
| 2022 | 63 | #2,725 | — | — |
| 2021 | 51 | #3,167 | — | — |
| 2020 | 63 | #2,664 | — | — |
| 2019 | 67 | #2,605 | — | — |
| 2018 | 45 | #3,446 | — | — |
| 2017 | 49 | #3,256 | — | — |
| 2016 | 54 | #3,067 | — | — |
| 2015 | 51 | #3,220 | — | — |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,791 | — | — |
| 2013 | 40 | #3,796 | — | — |
| 2012 | 49 | #3,326 | — | — |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,268 | — | — |
| 2010 | 40 | #3,833 | — | — |
| 2009 | 47 | #3,467 | — | — |
| 2008 | 30 | #4,915 | — | — |
| 2007 | 36 | #4,230 | — | — |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,208 | — | — |
| 2005 | 26 | #4,981 | — | — |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,013 | — | — |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,359 | — | — |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,955 | — | — |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,855 | — | — |
| 2000 | 26 | #4,550 | — | — |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,552 | — | — |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,687 | — | — |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,044 | — | — |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,250 | — | — |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,706 | — | — |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,739 | — | — |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,776 | — | — |
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).