Cali
The girl's name Cali has been in the national records since 1959, with 23,745 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 574th. About 24,000 Calis are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 11.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Cali boys named Cali
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 23,745
- Estimated living today
- 24,000
- Median age today
- 11
- Peak year
- 2014
- Best rank
- 202nd
- Rank in 2025
- 574th
- First recorded
- 1959
- Girls / boys
- 23,342 / 403
How old the living Calis are
born that year still alive today
Of the 23,745 babies given the name since 1959, about 24,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 18,000 of them are children and 5 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2014 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Calis
- Cali Sweets (born 1988)American pornographic actress
People named Cali with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Cali is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Cali is most concentrated in Nevada (2.5×), Florida (2.0×), Georgia (1.6×), California (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2014
The most popular girls’ names the year Cali peaked:
Cali elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Cali | 2,385 | 324th |
| England and Wales girls | Cali | 950 | 439th |
| Scotland girls | Cali | 262 | 160th |
| France boys | Cali | 225 | 1,674th |
| Ireland girls | Cali | 117 | 271st |
| Switzerland girls | Cali | 79 | 576th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Cali | 71 | 191st |
| England and Wales boys | Cali | 41 | 2,160th |
| Belgium girls | Cali | 5 | 1,353rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Cali: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Cali | 7 | 0.001% | 1,238th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Cali | 72 | 0.017% | 176th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Cali is most concentrated in Vaud, where 0.02% of children were given it – 35 of them.
Cali among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Cali | — | 8 |
| Finland boys | Cali | — | 5 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Cali against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.