Kalli
Kalli was given to 56 girls in 2025, #2,974 among girls’ names; 5,317 Americans have been recorded with it since 1952 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,230 Americans named Kalli and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 15 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kalli by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kalli?
#2,974 among girls’ names, 2025
Kalli fell from #1,977 in 2015 to #2,974 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 56.6 to 34.8 per million.
259 babies in 2007, the peak
Kalli peaked in 2007, when 259 girls were given it, #1,022 among girls’ names. The 56 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56 | #2,974 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 46 | #3,427 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 55 | #3,034 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 57 | #2,945 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 48 | #3,316 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 66 | #2,586 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 73 | #2,442 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 78 | #2,350 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 105 | #1,924 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 91 | #2,137 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 101 | #1,977 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 116 | #1,780 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 119 | #1,740 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 165 | #1,400 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 165 | #1,385 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 154 | #1,473 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 171 | #1,389 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 207 | #1,225 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 259 | #1,022 | 0.13 |
| 2006 | 160 | #1,419 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 133 | #1,540 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 146 | #1,422 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 146 | #1,377 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 160 | #1,244 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 146 | #1,317 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 150 | #1,288 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 183 | #1,090 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 136 | #1,307 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 151 | #1,199 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 131 | #1,310 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 134 | #1,261 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 122 | #1,362 | 0.07 |
| 1993 | 110 | #1,453 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 135 | #1,268 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 113 | #1,418 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 142 | #1,196 | 0.07 |
| 1989 | 103 | #1,434 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 71 | #1,773 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 62 | #1,867 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 79 | #1,544 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 53 | #2,030 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 42 | #2,320 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 42 | #2,287 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 43 | #2,303 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 32 | #2,811 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,054 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,115 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,324 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 22 | #3,425 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,462 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,558 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,113 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,232 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,396 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,938 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,349 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,932 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,769 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,502 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,962 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,349 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,061 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,540 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,551 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,413 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,124 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,694 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kalli a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kalli has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 67 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kalli: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kalli, and how old are they?
5,230 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 5,317 Americans ever recorded as Kalli. The median Kalli alive today is 23 years old; half are between 15 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 4,661 people named Kalli (4,635 women and girls, 26 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,938 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 41 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 198 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,380 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,600 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,010 |
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 Kalli born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 7 | #2,773 | 0.9× |
Where Kalli is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kalli is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1952 it was given 2.0 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 Kalli with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Kalli?
Kalli is a less common spelling of Callie: SSA has recorded 5,317 Kalli and 70,827 Callie since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 530,835 babies since 1880, Kalli is the eighth most given (1.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 56 of their 4,427 babies (1.3%), the seventh 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 Kalli
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 Kalli and names like it
- Compare Kalli and CallieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKalli peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kalli since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Kalli.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kalli alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.