Cali
#574 for girls in 2025, 518 births · #5,861 for boys in 2025, 15 births
Given to girls 98.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2014 · 1,664 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 23,342since 1959
Cali over time
Rank among girls' names. Cali has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #574 | 518 | #5,861 | 15 |
| 2024 | #493 | 622 | #6,199 | 14 |
| 2023 | #450 | 683 | #4,112 | 26 |
| 2022 | #373 | 844 | #3,995 | 27 |
| 2021 | #336 | 969 | #4,118 | 25 |
| 2020 | #294 | 1,089 | #2,505 | 51 |
| 2019 | #274 | 1,217 | #3,259 | 35 |
| 2018 | #279 | 1,188 | #3,171 | 36 |
| 2017 | #288 | 1,128 | #4,105 | 25 |
| 2016 | #264 | 1,200 | #3,441 | 32 |
| 2015 | #232 | 1,437 | #3,591 | 30 |
| 2014 | #202 | 1,664 | #4,138 | 24 |
| 2013 | #280 | 1,133 | #6,603 | 12 |
| 2012 | #331 | 946 | #8,864 | 8 |
| 2011 | #389 | 816 | #6,578 | 12 |
| 2010 | #416 | 757 | #8,803 | 8 |
| 2009 | #434 | 732 | #9,864 | 7 |
| 2008 | #428 | 740 | — | |
| 2007 | #489 | 664 | — | |
| 2006 | #605 | 482 | #7,427 | 10 |
| 2005 | #624 | 450 | — | |
| 2004 | #754 | 346 | — | |
| 2003 | #779 | 317 | — | |
| 2002 | #818 | 284 | — | |
| 2001 | #891 | 257 | — | |
| 2000 | #817 | 277 | — | |
| 1999 | #816 | 266 | — | |
| 1998 | #896 | 235 | — | |
| 1997 | #971 | 201 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,079 | 171 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,214 | 141 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,433 | 111 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,312 | 128 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,312 | 128 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,343 | 122 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,163 | 148 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,220 | 132 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,686 | 76 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,398 | 96 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,351 | 96 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,128 | 128 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,149 | 46 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,097 | 47 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,288 | 43 | — | |
| 1981 | #3,625 | 22 | — | |
| 1980 | #3,002 | 29 | — | |
| 1979 | #4,231 | 17 | #5,355 | 6 |
| 1978 | #2,741 | 30 | — | |
| 1977 | #3,267 | 23 | — | |
| 1976 | #3,188 | 22 | — | |
| 1975 | #3,259 | 21 | — | |
| 1974 | #3,863 | 16 | — | |
| 1973 | #3,635 | 17 | — | |
| 1972 | #5,480 | 9 | — | |
| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 | — | |
| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 | — | |
| 1969 | #5,456 | 8 | — | |
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| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 | — | |
| 1966 | #5,809 | 6 | — | |
| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 | — | |
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| 1963 | #4,019 | 11 | — | |
| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 | — | |
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| 1959 | #5,566 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Cali! It came in at #5,566, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1960–1962, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Cali is popular in 1989
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Utah#406 · 1 in 2,240
- Wisconsin#545 · 1 in 4,883
- Louisiana#560 · 1 in 3,679
- Missouri#680 · 1 in 6,506
- Ohio#788 · 1 in 8,731
Best ever in a state: #88 in Mississippi, 2014.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Utah | #406 | 6 | 1 in 2,240 |
| Wisconsin | #545 | 6 | 1 in 4,883 |
| Louisiana | #560 | 7 | 1 in 3,679 |
| Missouri | #680 | 5 | 1 in 6,506 |
| Ohio | #788 | 8 | 1 in 8,731 |
| Georgia | #791 | 6 | 1 in 6,974 |
| New Jersey | #825 | 6 | 1 in 7,998 |
| Illinois | #1,088 | 7 | 1 in 11,042 |
| Florida | #1,365 | 5 | 1 in 15,405 |
| Texas | #1,612 | 7 | 1 in 19,055 |
| California | #1,678 | 12 | 1 in 20,332 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Cali
- 81 spots since 2024 (#493 → #574)
- 280 spots since 2020 (#294 → #574)
- 342 spots since 2015 (#232 → #574)
- Biggest jump: 130 spots in 2005 (#754 → #624)
- Biggest drop: 81 spots in 2025 (#493 → #574)
- Debuted 1959
- Peaked 2014 at #202 (1,664 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 29 yrs · run 1997–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,074 girls born in 2014 were named Cali (0.09%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,103 girls born in 2025 (0.03%)
- 49.2% of all girls named Cali (11,486) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 6 | #5,566 (1959) | #5,566 |
| 1960s | 41 | #4,019 (1963) | #5,741 |
| 1970s | 169 | #2,741 (1978) | #4,265 |
| 1980s | 715 | #1,128 (1985) | #1,994 |
| 1990s | 1,651 | #816 (1999) | #1,154 |
| 2000s | 4,549 | #428 (2008) | #664 |
| 2010s | 11,486 | #202 (2014) | #296 |
| 2020s | 4,725 | #294 (2020) | #420 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Cali in 1989
Top girls' names in 1989
More about 1989
girls
1,843,552 girls got a published name in 1989; 1 in 13,966 of them was named Cali, which outranked 91.6% of the 14,550 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,213Jayne133
- #1,213Mallorie133
- #1,213Violet133
- #1,220Cali132
- #1,220Esperanza132
- #1,220Kaylynn132
- #1,220Lashawn132
- #1,225Carey131
- #1,225Dixie131
- #1,225Gail131
Tied with 4 names at #1,220; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.