Cali — #495 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Cali

The Social Security Administration has registered 22,812 babies named Cali between 1959 and 2024, spanning 66 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Cali currently holds the #495 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 1,663 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cali performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 11,484 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Cali shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 3,087 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Cali in 49 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cali 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 22,812 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.