Meaning not yet researched.
Callie: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,754 in 2025. Its best rank was #124 in 1880.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #124 in 1880; #175 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Callie in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#175 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1880, at #124.
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Callie: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,754 girls in 2025. Peak: #124 in 1880 · most girls in one year: 1,763 (2014).
In 2025, 1,754 US girls were named Callie, making it the 175th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1 place from #176 in 2024. That is 45 more than the 1,709 girls named Callie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #124, reached in 1880. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,763, in 2014. For comparison, it was #195 in 2015 and #765 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Callie in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 131 babies with the name. In all, 70,827 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 15,504 babies named Callie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 16,509 US girls were named Callie; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,754. In 2025 that was about 1 in 916 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Callie ranked highest in Rhode Island in 2025, at #66 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 4 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Kallie (12,683 babies since 1880), Cali (23,745 babies since 1880), Kaylie (22,101 babies since 1880) and Caylee (9,769 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Cally, Calley and Callia are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Cal.
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: Cally (1,773), Calley (956), Callia (577), Cayli (459), Cailie (219), Caelie (106), Caili (81), Calii (78), Caelia (76), Calliah (69), Calei (67), Calliegh (54), and more.
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.
Callie is listed as a nickname for California.
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 7 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhode Island | 11 | #66 | #165 |
| West Virginia | 19 | #68 | #80 |
| New Hampshire | 12 | #97 | #75 |
| Wisconsin | 49 | #98 | #174 |
| Pennsylvania | 92 | #108 | #185 |
| Arkansas | 25 | #112 | #103 |
| Ohio | 91 | #114 | #129 |
| Connecticut | 25 | #115 | #258 |
| Alabama | 39 | #117 | #113 |
| Louisiana | 35 | #118 | #216 |
| Maine | 9 | #119 | #96 |
| New Jersey | 64 | #121 | #212 |
| Massachusetts | 42 | #128 | #178 |
| Tennessee | 57 | #129 | #115 |
| Kentucky | 34 | #130 | #117 |
| Indiana | 48 | #139 | #129 |
| Michigan | 59 | #141 | #194 |
| South Dakota | 8 | #141 | #190 |
| North Carolina | 70 | #142 | #163 |
| Virginia | 54 | #142 | #164 |
| North Dakota | 7 | #144 | — |
| Iowa | 22 | #147 | #187 |
| Georgia | 66 | #147 | #131 |
| Maryland | 33 | #148 | #226 |
| Missouri | 40 | #154 | #150 |
| South Carolina | 30 | #157 | #159 |
| Mississippi | 15 | #166 | #154 |
| Oklahoma | 23 | #169 | #171 |
| Florida | 103 | #169 | #242 |
| Washington | 42 | #171 | #199 |
| New York | 85 | #195 | #255 |
| Kansas | 17 | #197 | #208 |
| Colorado | 30 | #200 | #228 |
| Nebraska | 11 | #208 | #183 |
| Illinois | 48 | #208 | #271 |
| Oregon | 17 | #210 | #347 |
| Montana | 5 | #217 | — |
| Texas | 136 | #255 | #256 |
| Idaho | 8 | #283 | #147 |
| Minnesota | 19 | #288 | #160 |
| California | 93 | #350 | #323 |
| Arizona | 19 | #361 | #249 |
| Nevada | 7 | #385 | #376 |
| Utah | 9 | #447 | #215 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,754 | #175 | — | — |
| 2024 | 1,709 | #176 | — | — |
| 2023 | 1,654 | #178 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,578 | #187 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,671 | #178 | 5 | #12,449 |
| 2020 | 1,726 | #165 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,636 | #180 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,586 | #191 | 5 | #12,477 |
| 2017 | 1,652 | #188 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,543 | #212 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,684 | #195 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,763 | #186 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,420 | #226 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,422 | #222 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,474 | #213 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,319 | #239 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,324 | #248 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,471 | #231 | 5 | #12,818 |
| 2007 | 1,359 | #258 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,085 | #304 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,004 | #320 | — | — |
| 2004 | 925 | #345 | 8 | #8,249 |
| 2003 | 917 | #339 | — | — |
| 2002 | 903 | #337 | — | — |
| 2001 | 920 | #333 | — | — |
| 2000 | 990 | #321 | 5 | #10,593 |
| 1999 | 1,200 | #265 | — | — |
| 1998 | 1,009 | #300 | — | — |
| 1997 | 927 | #318 | — | — |
| 1996 | 877 | #320 | 7 | #7,243 |
| 1995 | 954 | #291 | — | — |
| 1994 | 774 | #343 | — | — |
| 1993 | 855 | #311 | — | — |
| 1992 | 945 | #296 | — | — |
| 1991 | 915 | #304 | 7 | #6,603 |
| 1990 | 941 | #295 | 5 | #8,287 |
| 1989 | 746 | #340 | 7 | #6,305 |
| 1988 | 558 | #418 | — | — |
| 1987 | 617 | #380 | 6 | #6,197 |
| 1986 | 593 | #388 | — | — |
| 1985 | 567 | #397 | 5 | #6,661 |
| 1984 | 484 | #433 | 8 | #4,614 |
| 1983 | 454 | #453 | — | — |
| 1982 | 419 | #489 | — | — |
| 1981 | 354 | #532 | — | — |
| 1980 | 252 | #686 | — | — |
| 1979 | 213 | #756 | — | — |
| 1978 | 237 | #670 | — | — |
| 1977 | 225 | #695 | 7 | #4,650 |
| 1976 | 189 | #762 | — | — |
| 1975 | 215 | #696 | — | — |
| 1974 | 192 | #741 | 5 | #5,309 |
| 1973 | 150 | #858 | 5 | #5,197 |
| 1972 | 111 | #1,045 | — | — |
| 1971 | 139 | #932 | — | — |
| 1970 | 115 | #1,060 | 5 | #4,806 |
| 1969 | 92 | #1,163 | — | — |
| 1968 | 91 | #1,118 | — | — |
| 1967 | 88 | #1,119 | — | — |
| 1966 | 81 | #1,189 | — | — |
| 1965 | 99 | #1,055 | — | — |
| 1964 | 113 | #1,009 | — | — |
| 1963 | 130 | #924 | — | — |
| 1962 | 102 | #1,066 | 6 | #3,685 |
| 1961 | 117 | #1,003 | 5 | #4,146 |
| 1960 | 122 | #968 | — | — |
| 1959 | 118 | #971 | — | — |
| 1958 | 100 | #1,045 | 6 | #3,589 |
| 1957 | 107 | #1,010 | — | — |
| 1956 | 125 | #893 | 7 | #3,254 |
| 1955 | 133 | #842 | 5 | #3,950 |
| 1954 | 109 | #921 | 8 | #2,984 |
| 1953 | 116 | #871 | 5 | #3,875 |
| 1952 | 136 | #763 | — | — |
| 1951 | 135 | #757 | — | — |
| 1950 | 128 | #765 | — | — |
| 1949 | 127 | #766 | — | — |
| 1948 | 131 | #738 | — | — |
| 1947 | 137 | #730 | — | — |
| 1946 | 119 | #749 | 6 | #3,218 |
| 1945 | 137 | #621 | 7 | #2,778 |
| 1944 | 180 | #539 | 6 | #3,151 |
| 1943 | 174 | #574 | 12 | #2,190 |
| 1942 | 170 | #566 | — | — |
| 1941 | 123 | #639 | 6 | #3,193 |
| 1940 | 175 | #518 | 7 | #2,911 |
| 1939 | 144 | #558 | 5 | #3,549 |
| 1938 | 182 | #493 | 9 | #2,507 |
| 1937 | 165 | #510 | 7 | #2,945 |
| 1936 | 175 | #488 | 9 | #2,478 |
| 1935 | 200 | #452 | 13 | #2,042 |
| 1934 | 208 | #452 | 6 | #3,332 |
| 1933 | 208 | #452 | 9 | #2,568 |
| 1932 | 195 | #472 | 10 | #2,483 |
| 1931 | 180 | #476 | 11 | #2,344 |
| 1930 | 231 | #444 | 15 | #1,977 |
| 1929 | 240 | #428 | 8 | #3,020 |
| 1928 | 237 | #442 | 9 | #2,879 |
| 1927 | 265 | #422 | 16 | #2,054 |
| 1926 | 306 | #393 | 12 | #2,450 |
| 1925 | 313 | #388 | 12 | #2,455 |
| 1924 | 318 | #382 | 16 | #2,055 |
| 1923 | 300 | #383 | 17 | #1,953 |
| 1922 | 339 | #357 | 13 | #2,361 |
| 1921 | 346 | #354 | 15 | #2,164 |
| 1920 | 362 | #345 | 19 | #1,829 |
| 1919 | 343 | #347 | 16 | #1,986 |
| 1918 | 331 | #356 | 18 | #1,835 |
| 1917 | 356 | #331 | 18 | #1,759 |
| 1916 | 357 | #322 | 8 | #2,962 |
| 1915 | 350 | #316 | 11 | #2,327 |
| 1914 | 318 | #294 | 13 | #1,795 |
| 1913 | 273 | #288 | 5 | #2,885 |
| 1912 | 253 | #286 | 6 | #2,319 |
| 1911 | 223 | #260 | 5 | #1,777 |
| 1910 | 244 | #247 | 7 | #1,332 |
| 1909 | 196 | #256 | 5 | #1,486 |
| 1908 | 214 | #230 | 9 | #959 |
| 1907 | 233 | #216 | — | — |
| 1906 | 208 | #218 | 5 | #1,269 |
| 1905 | 217 | #206 | — | — |
| 1904 | 170 | #237 | 5 | #1,234 |
| 1903 | 199 | #212 | 6 | #1,030 |
| 1902 | 221 | #195 | 5 | #1,168 |
| 1901 | 183 | #212 | 5 | #1,072 |
| 1900 | 310 | #175 | 9 | #912 |
| 1899 | 208 | #192 | 6 | #951 |
| 1898 | 235 | #190 | — | — |
| 1897 | 231 | #181 | 6 | #960 |
| 1896 | 212 | #189 | — | — |
| 1895 | 211 | #186 | 5 | #1,101 |
| 1894 | 227 | #177 | — | — |
| 1893 | 194 | #181 | 6 | #928 |
| 1892 | 189 | #186 | 8 | #809 |
| 1891 | 194 | #171 | — | — |
| 1890 | 230 | #153 | — | — |
| 1889 | 181 | #166 | 6 | #890 |
| 1888 | 195 | #158 | 7 | #831 |
| 1887 | 167 | #150 | — | — |
| 1886 | 155 | #153 | 7 | #776 |
| 1885 | 157 | #143 | — | — |
| 1884 | 161 | #138 | 8 | #712 |
| 1883 | 135 | #143 | — | — |
| 1882 | 129 | #139 | 5 | #962 |
| 1881 | 104 | #147 | 5 | #886 |
| 1880 | 131 | #124 | — | — |
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).