Kalise
Kalise was given to 18 girls in 2025, #6,429 among girls’ names; 872 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kalise by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kalise?
#6,429 among girls’ names, 2025
Kalise fell from #3,409 in 2015 to #6,429 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 26.3 to 11.2 per million.
49 babies in 2017, the peak
Kalise peaked in 2017, when 49 girls were given it, #3,274 among girls’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 37% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,429 | 11.2 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,518 | 11.1 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,056 | 12.5 |
| 2022 | 36 | #4,074 | 21.9 |
| 2021 | 46 | #3,414 | 28.0 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,870 | 22.9 |
| 2019 | 46 | #3,419 | 27.4 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,822 | 16.5 |
| 2017 | 49 | #3,274 | 28.4 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,197 | 19.8 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 47 | #3,409 | 26.3 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,878 | 21.8 |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,481 | 18.2 |
| 2012 | 38 | #4,022 | 21.6 |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,411 | 18.8 |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,536 | 18.0 |
| 2009 | 41 | #3,830 | 22.3 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,359 | 14.3 |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,681 | 22.9 |
| 2006 | 48 | #3,390 | 25.2 |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,418 | 16.8 |
| 2004 | 35 | #4,045 | 19.1 |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,731 | 14.8 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,036 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,782 | 8.9 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,780 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,817 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,453 | 2.8 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,977 | 2.6 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,693 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kalise a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kalise has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kalise: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kalise, and how old are they?
An estimated 865 Americans named Kalise and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 635 people named Kalise (620 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 701 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
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 3,760 babies since 1880, Kalise is the second most given (23% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 77 babies (23%), the 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 Kalise
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 Kalise and names like it
- Compare Kalise and KalissaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKalise peaked in 2017.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kalise since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Kalise.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kalise alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.