Girl

Calli

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#5,124
25 girls
2015
#2,262
rank
1950
—
not ranked

Calli: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 25 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,147 in 1990.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Peaked at #1,147 in 1990; #5,124 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Calli in 2025 was a girl.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#5,124 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1990, at #1,147.

Babies in 2025
25
Since 1880
4,517
Years on record
68

Babies named Calli, every year since 1880

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Girls

Calli: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 25 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,147 in 1990 · most girls in one year: 161 (1999).

About the name Calli

In 2025, 25 US girls were named Calli, making it the 5,124th most common girls’ name of the year, down 203 places from #4,921 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 27 girls named Calli in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,147, reached in 1990. The most girls given the name in a single year was 161, in 1999. For comparison, it was #2,262 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.

Social Security card records list Calli in 68 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1952 with 5 babies. In all, 4,517 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,296 babies named Calli.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 513 US girls were named Calli; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 89. In 2025 that was about 1 in 64,291 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.

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 Kallie (12,683 babies since 1880).

Meaning

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.

Related spellings

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.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Calli in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
202525#5,124——
202427#4,921——
202339#3,850——
202241#3,716——
202143#3,558——
202047#3,295——
201962#2,733——
201867#2,590——
201773#2,470——
201689#2,174——
201583#2,262——
201486#2,201——
2013100#1,969——
2012107#1,878——
2011119#1,732——
2010129#1,651——
2009151#1,511——
2008156#1,497——
2007155#1,493——
2006126#1,672——
2005129#1,579——
2004113#1,715——
2003119#1,616——
2002108#1,698——
2001106#1,703——
2000133#1,396——
1999161#1,197——
1998120#1,432——
1997132#1,312——
1996117#1,416——
1995121#1,358——
199492#1,637——
1993119#1,374——
1992125#1,341——
1991115#1,397——
1990150#1,147——
1989106#1,405——
198880#1,617——
198798#1,381——
198684#1,484——
198554#2,000——
198454#1,923——
198341#2,313——
198236#2,589——
198129#2,998——
198019#4,011——
197915#4,649——
197822#3,401——
197718#3,925——
197619#3,554——
197514#4,387——
197423#3,017——
197318#3,495——
197214#4,109——
197111#4,838——
197010#5,092——
19675#6,910——
19665#6,673——
19657#5,341——
19645#6,876——
19625#6,685——
19615#6,666——
19586#5,480——
19575#6,172——
19565#6,049——
19558#4,411——
19546#5,208——
19525#5,648——

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).