Calina
Calina was given to 29 girls in 2025, #4,677 among girls’ names; 782 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Calina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Calina?
#4,677 among girls’ names, 2025
Calina fell from #4,082 in 2015 to #4,677 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 20.2 to 18.0 per million.
39 babies in 2018, the peak
Calina peaked in 2018, when 39 girls were given it, #3,796 among girls’ names. The 29 births of 2025 are 74% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #4,677 | 18.0 |
| 2024 | 29 | #4,685 | 17.9 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,890 | 16.8 |
| 2022 | 36 | #4,051 | 21.9 |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,259 | 20.1 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,465 | 18.6 |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,460 | 18.5 |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,796 | 22.9 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,394 | 13.9 |
| 2016 | 36 | #4,102 | 20.3 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #4,082 | 20.2 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,827 | 12.3 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,515 | 10.8 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,151 | 11.9 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,497 | 9.1 |
| 2010 | 15 | #7,960 | 8.4 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,125 | 8.2 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,793 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,603 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 22 | #5,953 | 11.6 |
| 2005 | 14 | #7,967 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,804 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,849 | 10.9 |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,901 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,249 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,653 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,798 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,446 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,073 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,120 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,176 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,667 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,830 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,050 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 10 | #7,959 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,587 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,056 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,096 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,802 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,028 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,620 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,768 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 11 | #5,973 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,864 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,395 | 3.1 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,690 | 5.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Calina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Calina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Calina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Calina, and how old are they?
An estimated 773 Americans named Calina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 646 people named Calina (644 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 599 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Calina?
Calina is a less common spelling of Kalina: SSA has recorded 782 Calina and 4,288 Kalina since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 10,959 babies since 1880, Calina is the fifth most given (7.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 29 of their 442 babies (6.6%), the sixth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Calina
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Calina and names like it
- Compare Calina and KalinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCalina peaked in 2018.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Calina since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Calina.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Calina alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.