Calais — #13929 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Calais

The Social Security Administration has registered 179 babies named Calais between 1984 and 2024, spanning 41 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Calais currently holds the #13929 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2010, when 13 babies received it in a single year. Calais is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 84 additional births since 2017.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Calais performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 64 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Calais shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Calais in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 179 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.