Meaning not yet researched.
Calla: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 156 in 2025. Its best rank was #633 in 1881.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #633 in 1881; #1,397 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Calla in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,397 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1881, at #633.
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Calla: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 156 girls in 2025. Peak: #633 in 1881 · most girls in one year: 176 (2017).
In 2025, 156 US girls were named Calla, making it the 1,397th most common girls’ name of the year, up 114 places from #1,511 in 2024. That is 13 more than the 143 girls named Calla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #633, reached in 1881. The most girls given the name in a single year was 176, in 2017. For comparison, it was #1,568 in 2015 and #3,075 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Calla in 132 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 6 babies. In all, 4,408 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,350 babies named Calla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,406 US girls were named Calla; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 176. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,303 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Calla ranked highest in Kansas in 2025, at #599 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kayla (347,144 babies since 1880), Kaila (14,556 babies since 1880), Cayla (10,853 babies since 1880) and Kala (7,772 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Calaya, Callaia and Calaia 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: Calaya (242), Callaia (5), Calaia (5).
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 Calla 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas | 5 | #599 | — |
| Tennessee | 9 | #757 | — |
| Washington | 7 | #834 | — |
| Minnesota | 5 | #861 | — |
| North Carolina | 10 | #915 | — |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,037 | — |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,047 | #1,314 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,063 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,218 | #972 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,727 | — |
| Texas | 10 | #2,068 | #3,375 |
| California | 9 | #2,131 | #2,193 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 156 | #1,397 | — | — |
| 2024 | 143 | #1,511 | — | — |
| 2023 | 130 | #1,605 | — | — |
| 2022 | 135 | #1,578 | — | — |
| 2021 | 134 | #1,569 | — | — |
| 2020 | 135 | #1,560 | — | — |
| 2019 | 111 | #1,833 | — | — |
| 2018 | 122 | #1,693 | — | — |
| 2017 | 176 | #1,322 | — | — |
| 2016 | 164 | #1,412 | — | — |
| 2015 | 140 | #1,568 | — | — |
| 2014 | 140 | #1,557 | — | — |
| 2013 | 139 | #1,558 | — | — |
| 2012 | 120 | #1,721 | — | — |
| 2011 | 104 | #1,912 | — | — |
| 2010 | 134 | #1,614 | — | — |
| 2009 | 107 | #1,951 | — | — |
| 2008 | 96 | #2,107 | — | — |
| 2007 | 92 | #2,164 | — | — |
| 2006 | 87 | #2,208 | — | — |
| 2005 | 81 | #2,241 | — | — |
| 2004 | 71 | #2,401 | — | — |
| 2003 | 60 | #2,643 | — | — |
| 2002 | 50 | #2,940 | — | — |
| 2001 | 69 | #2,306 | — | — |
| 2000 | 57 | #2,599 | — | — |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,646 | — | — |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,434 | — | — |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,831 | — | — |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,158 | — | — |
| 1995 | 44 | #2,739 | — | — |
| 1994 | 44 | #2,758 | — | — |
| 1993 | 49 | #2,539 | — | — |
| 1992 | 57 | #2,299 | — | — |
| 1991 | 57 | #2,274 | — | — |
| 1990 | 41 | #2,807 | — | — |
| 1989 | 46 | #2,483 | — | — |
| 1988 | 41 | #2,601 | — | — |
| 1987 | 39 | #2,580 | — | — |
| 1986 | 56 | #1,958 | — | — |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,655 | — | — |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,747 | — | — |
| 1983 | 14 | #4,913 | — | — |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,370 | — | — |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,867 | — | — |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,269 | — | — |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,764 | — | — |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,683 | — | — |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,414 | — | — |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,693 | — | — |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,879 | — | — |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,154 | — | — |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,469 | — | — |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,124 | — | — |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,101 | — | — |
| 1966 | 8 | #4,911 | — | — |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,340 | — | — |
| 1963 | 8 | #4,926 | — | — |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,349 | — | — |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,355 | — | — |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,809 | — | — |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,331 | — | — |
| 1958 | 7 | #4,951 | — | — |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,579 | — | — |
| 1956 | 10 | #3,939 | — | — |
| 1955 | 19 | #2,556 | — | — |
| 1954 | 19 | #2,525 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,751 | — | — |
| 1952 | 17 | #2,587 | — | — |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,495 | — | — |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,075 | — | — |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,412 | — | — |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,320 | — | — |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,404 | — | — |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,704 | — | — |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,709 | — | — |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,641 | — | — |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,774 | — | — |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,442 | — | — |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,334 | — | — |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,213 | — | — |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,273 | — | — |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,186 | — | — |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,802 | — | — |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,661 | — | — |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,922 | — | — |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,871 | — | — |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,943 | — | — |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,807 | — | — |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,087 | — | — |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,385 | — | — |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,143 | — | — |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,834 | — | — |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,156 | — | — |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,800 | — | — |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,445 | — | — |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,483 | — | — |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,037 | — | — |
| 1918 | 16 | #2,213 | — | — |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,386 | — | — |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,857 | — | — |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,929 | — | — |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,288 | — | — |
| 1913 | 10 | #2,045 | — | — |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,864 | — | — |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,680 | — | — |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,461 | — | — |
| 1908 | 9 | #1,455 | — | — |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,862 | — | — |
| 1906 | 12 | #1,107 | — | — |
| 1905 | 10 | #1,248 | — | — |
| 1901 | 7 | #1,359 | — | — |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,591 | — | — |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,292 | — | — |
| 1898 | 9 | #1,182 | — | — |
| 1897 | 11 | #990 | — | — |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,617 | — | — |
| 1895 | 11 | #994 | — | — |
| 1894 | 11 | #955 | — | — |
| 1893 | 8 | #1,098 | — | — |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,301 | — | — |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,358 | — | — |
| 1890 | 10 | #879 | — | — |
| 1888 | 9 | #904 | — | — |
| 1887 | 9 | #800 | — | — |
| 1886 | 12 | #663 | — | — |
| 1885 | 8 | #795 | — | — |
| 1884 | 10 | #690 | — | — |
| 1883 | 9 | #653 | — | — |
| 1882 | 8 | #684 | — | — |
| 1881 | 8 | #633 | — | — |
| 1880 | 6 | #754 | — | — |
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).