Calais
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Calais has been given to 263 babies in the U.S. since 1984. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2010, with 13 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 68% girls, 32% boys all-time.
Babies named Calais, 2024
1 in 557,000
Calais over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Calais over time
In 2024, Calais went to 33% girls and 67% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Calais?
Calais had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 557,000
- 6 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 270,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 386,177 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Calais sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Calais. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Calaiss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Calais was born before 2009 — so the typical Calais is around 16 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 35.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 63.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 179
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 35.8% of all recorded uses (64).
Is Calais rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2010 (13)
- Years since peak
- 15
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 44.6% average annual change
Spellings of Calais
Calais is not the most common spelling — Callie is, with 47.3% against Calais's 0.12%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Calais around the world
Where Calais ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1998–2008#4,524in 2008
- South Australia2005–2011#840in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Calais by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Calais
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Calais
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.