Cally
Cally was last recorded in 2024, when 8 babies were given it; 1,773 Americans have been recorded with it between 1948 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,710 Americans named Cally and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 24 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cally by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Cally mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Cally is “a female given name.”
Variant of Callie.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Cally?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,314, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
114 babies in 1990, the peak
Cally peaked in 1990, when 114 girls were given it, #1,382 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8 | #11,314 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,713 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,545 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,706 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,281 | 9.3 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,955 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,923 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,065 | 7.9 |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,053 | 6.7 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,377 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 17 | #7,108 | 9.7 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,583 | 13.6 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,703 | 17.1 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,219 | 11.8 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,570 | 13.6 |
| 2008 | 35 | #4,374 | 18.5 |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,832 | 15.6 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,258 | 13.7 |
| 2005 | 36 | #3,960 | 19.5 |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,722 | 15.2 |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,559 | 15.3 |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,655 | 14.5 |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,715 | 19.4 |
| 2000 | 35 | #3,670 | 19.3 |
| 1999 | 39 | #3,251 | 22.0 |
| 1998 | 45 | #2,889 | 25.5 |
| 1997 | 38 | #3,108 | 21.8 |
| 1996 | 31 | #3,567 | 17.7 |
| 1995 | 38 | #3,028 | 21.6 |
| 1994 | 35 | #3,236 | 19.6 |
| 1993 | 42 | #2,827 | 23.2 |
| 1992 | 54 | #2,386 | 29.3 |
| 1991 | 76 | #1,856 | 40.5 |
| 1990 | 114 | #1,382 | 60.0 |
| 1989 | 95 | #1,504 | 51.5 |
| 1988 | 32 | #3,093 | 18.0 |
| 1987 | 33 | #2,919 | 19.0 |
| 1986 | 36 | #2,685 | 21.0 |
| 1985 | 40 | #2,443 | 23.2 |
| 1984 | 27 | #3,153 | 16.0 |
| 1983 | 28 | #2,987 | 16.8 |
| 1982 | 30 | #2,964 | 17.7 |
| 1981 | 23 | #3,540 | 13.8 |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,228 | 15.7 |
| 1979 | 22 | #3,550 | 13.7 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,521 | 13.7 |
| 1977 | 26 | #3,011 | 17.0 |
| 1976 | 24 | #3,011 | 16.4 |
| 1975 | 22 | #3,170 | 15.1 |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,764 | 17.7 |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,654 | 11.7 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,549 | 7.9 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,165 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,733 | 9.2 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,746 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,521 | 6.1 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,024 | 4.8 |
| 1966 | 6 | #5,867 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 11 | #3,973 | 6.2 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,118 | 5.8 |
| 1963 | 19 | #2,875 | 9.9 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,611 | 6.6 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,807 | 5.9 |
| 1960 | 15 | #3,225 | 7.4 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,086 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,579 | 3.9 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,286 | 3.1 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,317 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,277 | 4.3 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,165 | 4.3 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,427 | 3.9 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,725 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cally a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cally has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 72 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cally: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cally, and how old are they?
1,710 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,773 Americans ever recorded as Cally. The median Cally alive today is 35 years old; half are between 24 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 1,802 people named Cally (1,754 women and girls, 48 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,669 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 105 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 250 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 714 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 495 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 142 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 143,422 babies since 1880, Cally is the eighth most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 2,715 babies recorded by SSA was a Cally (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Cally
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 Cally and names like it
- Compare Cally and CallieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCally peaked in 1990.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cally since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Cally.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Cally alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.