Calix
#2,006 for boys in 2025, 75 births
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 75 births
- Debut · boys
- 11 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 855since 2002
Calix over time
Rank among boys' names. Calix has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,006 | 75 |
| 2024 | #2,288 | 62 |
| 2023 | #2,737 | 47 |
| 2022 | #2,299 | 62 |
| 2021 | #2,464 | 54 |
| 2020 | #2,689 | 46 |
| 2019 | #2,582 | 50 |
| 2018 | #2,417 | 54 |
| 2017 | #3,781 | 28 |
| 2016 | #3,990 | 26 |
| 2015 | #3,513 | 31 |
| 2014 | #2,661 | 45 |
| 2013 | #2,623 | 45 |
| 2012 | #2,632 | 46 |
| 2011 | #4,822 | 19 |
| 2010 | #4,517 | 21 |
| 2009 | #4,035 | 25 |
| 2008 | #4,714 | 20 |
| 2007 | #4,640 | 20 |
| 2006 | #4,001 | 24 |
| 2005 | #4,631 | 18 |
| 2004 | #5,246 | 15 |
| 2003 | #6,258 | 11 |
| 2002 | #6,088 | 11 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Calix! It came in at #6,088, and was given to 11 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2002–2004, when fewer than 16 boys a year got the name.
Where Calix is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#1,704 · 1 in 21,042
- New York#1,801 · 1 in 17,826
Best ever in a state: #1,205 in North Carolina, 2020.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #1,704 | 9 | 1 in 21,042 |
| New York | #1,801 | 5 | 1 in 17,826 |
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See more about Calix
- 282 spots since 2024 (#2,288 → #2,006)
- 683 spots since 2020 (#2,689 → #2,006)
- 1,507 spots since 2015 (#3,513 → #2,006)
- Debuted 2002
- Peaked 2025 at #2,006 (75 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 22,774 boys born in 2025 were named Calix (0.00%)
- 42.7% of all boys named Calix (365) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 144 | #4,001 (2006) | #4,952 |
| 2010s | 365 | #2,417 (2018) | #3,354 |
| 2020s | 346 | #2,006 (2025) | #2,414 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Calix in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 32,398 of them was named Calix, which outranked 82.5% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,439Tyrese55
- #2,439Yusef55
- #2,439Zahid55
- #2,464Calix54
- #2,464Abbas54
- #2,464Bauer54
- #2,464Blaize54
- #2,499Advait53
- #2,499Akari53
- #2,499Amor53
Tied with 34 names at #2,464; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.