Citlali
Citlali was given to 159 girls in 2025, #1,381 among girls’ names; 4,519 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,480 Americans named Citlali and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 11 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Citlali by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Citlali mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Citlali is “a female given name” Its etymology gives the sense “star” (cītlalli).
Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl cītlalli (“star”).
/θiˈtlali/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Citlali?
#1,381 among girls’ names, 2025
Citlali rose from #2,094 in 2015 to #1,381 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 52.1 to 98.9 per million.
272 babies in 2005, the peak
Citlali peaked in 2005, when 272 girls were given it, #916 among girls’ names. The 159 births of 2025 are 58% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 159 | #1,381 | 0.10 |
| 2024 | 132 | #1,591 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 127 | #1,638 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 87 | #2,176 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 92 | #2,072 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 87 | #2,106 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 90 | #2,092 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 75 | #2,407 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 87 | #2,188 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 114 | #1,819 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 93 | #2,094 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 129 | #1,654 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 123 | #1,697 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 129 | #1,654 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 148 | #1,506 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 179 | #1,313 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 191 | #1,274 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 214 | #1,189 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 246 | #1,064 | 0.13 |
| 2006 | 272 | #962 | 0.14 |
| 2005 | 272 | #916 | 0.15 |
| 2004 | 250 | #958 | 0.14 |
| 2003 | 240 | #966 | 0.13 |
| 2002 | 231 | #961 | 0.13 |
| 2001 | 230 | #955 | 0.13 |
| 2000 | 156 | #1,256 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 108 | #1,559 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 56 | #2,467 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,830 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,202 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,597 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,289 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,108 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,087 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,669 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,703 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,176 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,462 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,651 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,585 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,698 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,492 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Citlali a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Citlali has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Citlali: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Citlali, and how old are they?
4,480 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,519 Americans ever recorded as Citlali. The median Citlali alive today is 18 years old; half are between 11 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 3,850 people named Citlali (3,838 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,825 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 10 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 146 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,930 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,390 |
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 Citlali born?
The states with the most babies named Citlali are California, Texas and Illinois, with 95% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 52 | #609 | 2.9× |
| Texas | 47 | #651 | 1.5× |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,145 | 1.6× |
| Nevada | 5 | #540 | 1.4× |
Where Citlali is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Citlali is most over-represented in California: since 1979 it was given 2.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Citlali 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 10,407 babies since 1880, Citlali is the most given (43% of them). In 2025 it was given to 159 of their 227 babies (70%), again the most given.
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 Citlali
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 Citlali and names like it
- Compare Citlali and CitlalyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCitlali peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Citlali since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Citlali: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Citlali.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Citlali alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.