Calla
Calla was given to 156 girls in 2025, #1,397 among girls’ names; 4,408 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,860 Americans named Calla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Calla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Calla?
#1,397 among girls’ names, 2025
Calla rose from #1,568 in 2015 to #1,397 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 78.4 to 97.1 per million.
176 babies in 2017, the peak
Calla peaked in 2017, when 176 girls were given it, #1,322 among girls’ names. The 156 births of 2025 are 89% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 156 | #1,397 | 0.10 |
| 2024 | 143 | #1,511 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 130 | #1,605 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 135 | #1,578 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 134 | #1,569 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 135 | #1,560 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 111 | #1,833 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 122 | #1,693 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 176 | #1,322 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 164 | #1,412 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (132)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 140 | #1,568 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 140 | #1,557 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 139 | #1,558 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 120 | #1,721 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 104 | #1,912 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 134 | #1,614 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 107 | #1,951 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 96 | #2,107 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 92 | #2,164 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 87 | #2,208 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 81 | #2,240 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 71 | #2,398 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 60 | #2,640 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 50 | #2,936 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 69 | #2,302 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 57 | #2,595 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,642 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,431 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,828 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,153 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 44 | #2,734 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 44 | #2,753 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 49 | #2,534 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 57 | #2,294 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 57 | #2,268 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 41 | #2,802 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 46 | #2,478 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 41 | #2,596 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 39 | #2,578 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 56 | #1,957 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,653 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,746 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 14 | #4,912 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,369 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,865 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,268 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,762 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,681 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,412 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,691 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,878 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,152 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,467 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,123 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,100 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 8 | #4,910 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,339 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 8 | #4,925 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,348 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,354 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,808 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,330 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 7 | #4,950 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,578 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 10 | #3,938 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 19 | #2,555 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 19 | #2,524 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,749 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 17 | #2,586 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,494 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,074 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,411 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,318 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,402 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,703 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,707 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,639 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,772 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,440 | under 0.01 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,332 | under 0.01 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,211 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,271 | under 0.01 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,184 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,800 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,659 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,920 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,870 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,942 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,805 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,085 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,383 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,142 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,833 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,155 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,798 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,444 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,483 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,035 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 16 | #2,212 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,384 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,855 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,928 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,287 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 10 | #2,044 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,863 | 0.02 |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,680 | 0.02 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,461 | 0.01 |
| 1908 | 9 | #1,455 | 0.03 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,861 | 0.02 |
| 1906 | 12 | #1,107 | 0.04 |
| 1905 | 10 | #1,247 | 0.03 |
| 1901 | 7 | #1,359 | 0.03 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,590 | 0.02 |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,291 | 0.03 |
| 1898 | 9 | #1,182 | 0.03 |
| 1897 | 11 | #990 | 0.05 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,616 | 0.02 |
| 1895 | 11 | #994 | 0.05 |
| 1894 | 11 | #955 | 0.05 |
| 1893 | 8 | #1,098 | 0.04 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,301 | 0.03 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,358 | 0.03 |
| 1890 | 10 | #879 | 0.05 |
| 1888 | 9 | #904 | 0.05 |
| 1887 | 9 | #800 | 0.06 |
| 1886 | 12 | #663 | 0.08 |
| 1885 | 8 | #795 | 0.06 |
| 1884 | 10 | #690 | 0.08 |
| 1883 | 9 | #653 | 0.08 |
| 1882 | 8 | #684 | 0.07 |
| 1881 | 8 | #633 | 0.09 |
| 1880 | 6 | #754 | 0.07 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Calla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Calla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 132 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Calla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Calla, and how old are they?
3,860 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 88% of the 4,408 Americans ever recorded as Calla. The median Calla alive today is 14 years old; half are between 8 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 3,050 people named Calla (3,037 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,107 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 24 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 132 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 88 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 573 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,230 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,810 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Calla born?
The states with the most babies named Calla are Texas, North Carolina and California, with 33% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 10 | #2,068 | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 10 | #915 | 0.3× |
| California | 9 | #2,131 | 0.4× |
| Tennessee | 9 | #757 | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,037 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,047 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,727 | 0.4× |
| Washington | 7 | #834 | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,063 | 0.1× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,218 | 0.7× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Calla with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 485,663 babies since 1880, Calla is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 156 of their 3,428 babies (4.6%), the fourth 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 Calla
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 Calla and names like it
- Compare Calla and KaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCalla peaked in 2017.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Calla since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Calla.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Calla alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.