Calix
#2,010 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Calix has been given to 855 babies in the U.S. since 2002. In 2025 it ranked #2,010 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 75 recorded.
Babies named Calix, 2025
1 in 44,200
Calix 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Calix?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 44,200
- 75 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 22,800
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #2,010
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 30,640 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Calix sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 30,640 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Calix. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Calixs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Calix was born before 2018 — so the typical Calix is around 7 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 42.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 855
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 42.7% of all recorded uses (365).
Is Calix 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
- +282
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +686
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,513
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.42×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (75)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.9% average annual change
Spellings of Calix
Calix is not the most common spelling — Caleb is, with 27.1% against Calix's 0.07%.
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.
Where Calix is used
Across 1910–2025, Calix was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 364,986 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Florida1 in —
- 3Georgia1 in —
- 4North Carolina1 in —
- 5New York1 in —
- 6Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Calix has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Calix around the world
Where Calix 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 & Wales2009–2025#3,256in 2025
- France2006–2025#4,331in 2025
- Canada2006–2024#1,536in 2024
- South Australia2007–2007#680in 2007
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Calix by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Calix
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Calix
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.