Girls' name · since 1978
Calle
218 babies named Calle in U.S. Social Security records since 1978, with the highest year being 1998. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #18,911 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 218
- born since 1978
- 1990s
- peak decade
Calle is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 218 have been recorded since 1978.
Calle has 218 recorded births among girls since 1978, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1978 to 2012.
- #18,911 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 218 born since 1978
- 1990s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Calle ranks #18,911 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 218 born since 1978, peaking in the 1990s.
- #18,911 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 218
- born since 1978
- 1990s
- peak decade
Calle's 218 recorded births place it above 73.79% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Calle's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Calle's SSA record in two at 1996 and the more recent half accounts for 59% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 41%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1978, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1998 peak of 12, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Calle popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1978–2012
- Peak year (1998)
- 12
- Annual births at peak, across 35 years of records
Calle by decade
1990s is the heaviest window (87 births, 40% of the file).
1990s was Calle's strongest decade.
87 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 40% of all-time use.
Calle births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s 5
1970s
5 births
- 1980s
1980s
39 births
- 1990s
1990s
87 births
- 2000s
2000s
77 births
- 2010s 10
2010s
10 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 87 births (40% of all-time use).
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- Calle's decade-level peak was the 1990s (87 total births); usage has since declined to 10 in the 2010s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Calle: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1998)
Similar record span (~34 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1978–2012 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Calle draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.