Kally
Kally was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,050 among girls’ names; 1,392 Americans have been recorded with it since 1956 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,350 Americans named Kally and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 18 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kally by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kally?
#16,050 among girls’ names, 2025
Kally fell from #6,338 in 2015 to #16,050 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.2 to 3.1 per million.
46 babies in 2007, the peak
Kally peaked in 2007, when 46 girls were given it, #3,563 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,050 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,308 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,939 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,037 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,238 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,882 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,867 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,936 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,636 | 8.7 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,782 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #6,338 | 11.2 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,575 | 10.6 |
| 2013 | 24 | #5,563 | 13.7 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,544 | 18.2 |
| 2011 | 32 | #4,512 | 18.2 |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,350 | 19.1 |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,866 | 16.3 |
| 2008 | 45 | #3,612 | 23.8 |
| 2007 | 46 | #3,563 | 23.9 |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,110 | 18.9 |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,024 | 14.1 |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,855 | 20.1 |
| 2003 | 33 | #4,067 | 18.1 |
| 2002 | 35 | #3,760 | 19.5 |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,656 | 20.0 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,928 | 17.6 |
| 1999 | 43 | #3,070 | 24.2 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,291 | 14.7 |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,945 | 16.1 |
| 1996 | 33 | #3,460 | 18.8 |
| 1995 | 33 | #3,384 | 18.8 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,118 | 10.6 |
| 1993 | 32 | #3,457 | 17.7 |
| 1992 | 30 | #3,616 | 16.3 |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,763 | 14.9 |
| 1990 | 43 | #2,710 | 22.6 |
| 1989 | 37 | #2,950 | 20.1 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,731 | 10.1 |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,671 | 13.8 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,252 | 11.1 |
| 1985 | 24 | #3,567 | 13.9 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,459 | 14.3 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,562 | 9.6 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,569 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,226 | 10.8 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,361 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,823 | 12.5 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,337 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,311 | 10.4 |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,038 | 10.9 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,722 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,144 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,322 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,669 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,404 | 7.8 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,579 | 5.1 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,673 | 4.7 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,435 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,131 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,026 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,481 | 5.3 |
| 1963 | 17 | #3,117 | 8.8 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,070 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,553 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,414 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 16 | #3,037 | 7.9 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,509 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,541 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,392 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kally a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kally has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 69 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kally: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kally, and how old are they?
1,350 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,392 Americans ever recorded as Kally. The median Kally alive today is 28 years old; half are between 18 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 1,403 people named Kally (1,360 women and girls, 43 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,312 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 68 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 158 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 402 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 545 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 178 |
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).
How common is the spelling Kally?
Kally is a less common spelling of Callie: SSA has recorded 1,392 Kally and 70,827 Callie since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 521,001 babies since 1880, Kally is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 4,127 babies (<1%), again the eighth 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 Kally
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 Kally and names like it
- Compare Kally and CallieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKally peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kally since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Kally.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kally alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.