Kali — #295 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Kali

The Social Security Administration has registered 31,568 babies named Kali between 1957 and 2024, spanning 68 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kali currently holds the #295 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 1,311 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kali performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 9,906 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Kali shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 2,683 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Kali in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kali in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 31,568 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.