Meaning not yet researched.
Kali: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 948 in 2025. Its best rank was #242 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #242 in 2019; #323 in 2025. About 98% of babies named Kali in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#323 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #242.
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Kali: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 948 girls in 2025. Peak: #242 in 2019 · most girls in one year: 1,312 (2019).
In 2025, 948 US girls were named Kali, making it the 323rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 28 places from #295 in 2024. That is 125 fewer than the 1,073 girls named Kali in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #242, reached in 2019. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,312. For comparison, it was #267 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kali in 69 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1957 with 6 babies. In all, 33,438 US babies have been given the name, 97% of them girls and 2.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 10,167 babies named Kali.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 11,320 US girls were named Kali; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 1,312. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,695 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kali ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #90 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Cali (23,745 babies since 1880), Kaylie (22,101 babies since 1880), Kaley (13,707 babies since 1880) and Kallie (12,683 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kally, Kaely and Kahli are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Kally (1,392), Kaely (1,156), Kahli (579), Kaly (495), Kalya (265), Kailia (235), Kalii (202), Caly (145), Kaliea (53), Kayeli (26), Kaieli (19), Kalyia (15), 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.
No nicknames listed for Kali in the open dataset we use.
Kali 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 16 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 24 | #90 | #254 |
| South Carolina | 29 | #165 | #151 |
| Georgia | 56 | #188 | #174 |
| Louisiana | 23 | #191 | #102 |
| North Carolina | 56 | #194 | #197 |
| Delaware | 5 | #197 | — |
| Maryland | 25 | #209 | #201 |
| Ohio | 47 | #237 | #237 |
| Michigan | 37 | #247 | #335 |
| Alabama | 19 | #254 | #262 |
| Pennsylvania | 41 | #268 | #219 |
| Florida | 69 | #277 | #212 |
| Virginia | 29 | #292 | #187 |
| New York | 58 | #293 | #326 |
| Illinois | 35 | #307 | #322 |
| Tennessee | 25 | #325 | #170 |
| West Virginia | 5 | #335 | #376 |
| New Jersey | 23 | #357 | #376 |
| Missouri | 17 | #360 | #180 |
| Indiana | 19 | #370 | #274 |
| Wisconsin | 14 | #377 | #281 |
| Texas | 91 | #378 | #345 |
| Massachusetts | 14 | #411 | #498 |
| Oklahoma | 10 | #419 | #217 |
| Kansas | 8 | #424 | #244 |
| Kentucky | 10 | #429 | #229 |
| Washington | 15 | #466 | #574 |
| Nevada | 6 | #470 | #308 |
| California | 69 | #487 | #370 |
| Connecticut | 6 | #508 | #377 |
| Iowa | 6 | #535 | — |
| Arizona | 12 | #558 | #398 |
| Oregon | 6 | #591 | — |
| Arkansas | 5 | #609 | #250 |
| Colorado | 6 | #847 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 948 | #323 | 24 | #4,318 |
| 2024 | 1,073 | #295 | 25 | #4,261 |
| 2023 | 1,072 | #291 | 29 | #3,843 |
| 2022 | 1,228 | #250 | 29 | #3,822 |
| 2021 | 1,123 | #284 | 43 | #2,888 |
| 2020 | 1,181 | #253 | 43 | #2,820 |
| 2019 | 1,312 | #242 | 41 | #2,965 |
| 2018 | 1,208 | #274 | 32 | #3,478 |
| 2017 | 1,089 | #302 | 37 | #3,159 |
| 2016 | 1,086 | #300 | 34 | #3,331 |
| 2015 | 1,187 | #267 | 30 | #3,637 |
| 2014 | 1,260 | #261 | 24 | #4,192 |
| 2013 | 872 | #363 | 21 | #4,537 |
| 2012 | 748 | #420 | 17 | #5,375 |
| 2011 | 602 | #493 | 7 | #10,197 |
| 2010 | 545 | #537 | 15 | #5,890 |
| 2009 | 602 | #501 | 14 | #6,268 |
| 2008 | 618 | #504 | 12 | #6,969 |
| 2007 | 668 | #486 | 14 | #6,096 |
| 2006 | 549 | #541 | 11 | #7,180 |
| 2005 | 554 | #526 | 8 | #8,704 |
| 2004 | 527 | #543 | 18 | #4,691 |
| 2003 | 494 | #564 | 18 | #4,522 |
| 2002 | 495 | #552 | 13 | #5,564 |
| 2001 | 592 | #469 | 19 | #4,212 |
| 2000 | 660 | #427 | 18 | #4,296 |
| 1999 | 763 | #375 | 13 | #5,177 |
| 1998 | 686 | #401 | 8 | #7,204 |
| 1997 | 800 | #348 | 13 | #4,809 |
| 1996 | 850 | #332 | 11 | #5,357 |
| 1995 | 756 | #348 | 7 | #7,383 |
| 1994 | 650 | #388 | 18 | #3,679 |
| 1993 | 595 | #421 | 15 | #4,128 |
| 1992 | 630 | #404 | 9 | #5,886 |
| 1991 | 560 | #453 | 12 | #4,624 |
| 1990 | 558 | #444 | 6 | #7,631 |
| 1989 | 472 | #499 | — | — |
| 1988 | 348 | #584 | 7 | #6,120 |
| 1987 | 346 | #573 | 11 | #4,096 |
| 1986 | 359 | #559 | 8 | #5,104 |
| 1985 | 329 | #591 | 9 | #4,514 |
| 1984 | 306 | #590 | 5 | #6,828 |
| 1983 | 206 | #777 | 7 | #5,194 |
| 1982 | 166 | #910 | — | — |
| 1981 | 129 | #1,084 | 12 | #3,510 |
| 1980 | 91 | #1,376 | 12 | #3,509 |
| 1979 | 53 | #1,957 | 19 | #2,513 |
| 1978 | 68 | #1,587 | 15 | #2,862 |
| 1977 | 61 | #1,706 | 13 | #3,112 |
| 1976 | 45 | #1,981 | 14 | #2,886 |
| 1975 | 62 | #1,594 | 12 | #3,151 |
| 1974 | 65 | #1,505 | 20 | #2,167 |
| 1973 | 34 | #2,283 | 11 | #3,122 |
| 1972 | 47 | #1,814 | 12 | #2,908 |
| 1971 | 61 | #1,577 | 10 | #3,258 |
| 1970 | 30 | #2,472 | 6 | #4,494 |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,524 | — | — |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,932 | — | — |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,941 | — | — |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,650 | — | — |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,122 | — | — |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,481 | — | — |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,181 | — | — |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,540 | — | — |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,022 | — | — |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,413 | — | — |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,809 | — | — |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,129 | — | — |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,724 | — | — |
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).