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 2023
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- District of Columbia#171 · 1 in 455
- Maryland#215 · 1 in 836
- South Carolina#221 · 1 in 853
- Alabama#223 · 1 in 885
- Tennessee#235 · 1 in 986
Best ever in a state: #88 in Mississippi, 2014.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | #171 | 5 | 1 in 455 |
| Maryland | #215 | 25 | 1 in 836 |
| South Carolina | #221 | 21 | 1 in 853 |
| Alabama | #223 | 21 | 1 in 885 |
| Tennessee | #235 | 32 | 1 in 986 |
| Mississippi | #259 | 11 | 1 in 860 |
| Louisiana | #272 | 17 | 1 in 1,032 |
| Michigan | #282 | 31 | 1 in 1,138 |
| Florida | #310 | 62 | 1 in 1,372 |
| Georgia | #315 | 35 | 1 in 1,296 |
| North Carolina | #319 | 33 | 1 in 1,346 |
| Arkansas | #337 | 9 | 1 in 1,157 |
| Pennsylvania | #366 | 30 | 1 in 1,555 |
| Missouri | #416 | 14 | 1 in 1,678 |
| Kentucky | #425 | 10 | 1 in 1,691 |
| Indiana | #427 | 16 | 1 in 1,739 |
| Ohio | #431 | 26 | 1 in 1,806 |
| Virginia | #435 | 19 | 1 in 1,748 |
| Nevada | #498 | 5 | 1 in 1,779 |
| Massachusetts | #502 | 10 | 1 in 2,335 |
| New Jersey | #522 | 15 | 1 in 2,371 |
| Wisconsin | #537 | 9 | 1 in 2,270 |
| California | #545 | 62 | 1 in 2,660 |
| New York | #546 | 31 | 1 in 2,508 |
| Iowa | #575 | 5 | 1 in 2,349 |
| Illinois | #612 | 16 | 1 in 2,785 |
| Texas | #619 | 53 | 1 in 3,059 |
| Oklahoma | #714 | 5 | 1 in 2,895 |
| Arizona | #756 | 8 | 1 in 3,509 |
| Washington | #761 | 8 | 1 in 3,532 |
| Colorado | #900 | 5 | 1 in 4,324 |
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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 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 2,349 of them was named Cali, which outranked 97.4% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 65,791 of them was named Cali, which outranked 71.1% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,002Whitt27
- #4,002Yostin27
- #4,002Zae27
- #4,112Cali26
- #4,112Adon26
- #4,112Adyan26
- #4,112Amaury26
- #4,220Abdurahman25
- #4,220Aboubacar25
- #4,220Acyn25
Tied with 107 names at #4,112; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.