# Cali (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/cali/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 23,745 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 403 / 23,342 (98% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 991, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 816 | 389 |
| 2012 | 946 | 331 |
| 2013 | 1,133 | 280 |
| 2014 | 1,664 | 202 |
| 2015 | 1,437 | 232 |
| 2016 | 1,200 | 264 |
| 2017 | 1,128 | 288 |
| 2018 | 1,188 | 279 |
| 2019 | 1,217 | 274 |
| 2020 | 1,089 | 294 |
| 2021 | 969 | 336 |
| 2022 | 844 | 374 |
| 2023 | 683 | 450 |
| 2024 | 622 | 493 |
| 2025 | 518 | 574 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 12 | 6,650 |
| 2012 | 8 | 8,990 |
| 2013 | 12 | 6,664 |
| 2014 | 24 | 4,158 |
| 2015 | 30 | 3,601 |
| 2016 | 32 | 3,453 |
| 2017 | 25 | 4,125 |
| 2018 | 36 | 3,180 |
| 2019 | 35 | 3,270 |
| 2020 | 51 | 2,516 |
| 2021 | 25 | 4,130 |
| 2022 | 27 | 4,002 |
| 2023 | 26 | 4,131 |
| 2024 | 14 | 6,242 |
| 2025 | 15 | 5,899 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 23 | 1,327 |
| 2012 | 24 | 1,342 |
| 2013 | 26 | 1,291 |
| 2014 | 36 | 1,005 |
| 2015 | 42 | 871 |
| 2016 | 46 | 822 |
| 2017 | 52 | 764 |
| 2018 | 82 | 519 |
| 2019 | 88 | 474 |
| 2020 | 96 | 439 |
| 2021 | 73 | 549 |
| 2022 | 69 | 562 |
| 2023 | 69 | 558 |
| 2024 | 64 | 610 |
| 2025 | 50 | 733 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 4 | 3,987 |
| 2018 | 6 | 3,011 |
| 2019 | 4 | 3,937 |
| 2021 | 7 | 2,730 |
| 2023 | 10 | 2,160 |
| 2024 | 5 | 3,688 |
| 2025 | 5 | 3,684 |

## People named Cali

- Cali Sweets, American pornographic actress

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.