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Calla

#1,397 in 2025Girls' name

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Calla has been given to 4,408 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #1,397 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 176 recorded.

Babies named Calla, 2025

1 in 21,300

Calla over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Calla: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly beauty

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Calla means

Calla may mean “beauty”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,408 girls were recorded with the name Calla between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 176 in 2017; its best national rank was #633 in 1881.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,560 in 2020 to #1,397 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,568 in 2015 to #1,397 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Calla?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 21,300
156 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 10,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,397
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
14,731 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Calla sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 14,731 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Calla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Callas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Calla was born before 2009 — so the typical Calla is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
65.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,887
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 30.6% of all recorded uses (1,350).

Is Calla 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
+114
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+163
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+171
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.11×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
88.6%
Peak was 2017 (176)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#633
1881

Spellings of Calla

Calla is not the most common spelling — Ella is, with 11.5% against Calla's 0.14%.

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 Calla is used

Across 2016–2025, Calla was most concentrated in Wisconsin — about 1 in 5,263 girls, against 1 in 13,470 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in 33,333).

319 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Wisconsin1 in 5,263
  2. 2Colorado1 in 5,882
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 6,250
  4. 4Virginia1 in 7,692
  5. 5Washington1 in 9,091
  6. 6Georgia1 in 11,111
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in 11,111
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 11,111

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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.

Calla around the world

Where Calla 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 & Wales
    1997–2025
    #2,278
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2007–2025
    #632
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2016–2022
    #418
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2018–2025
    #885
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #1,349
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1987–2008
    #796
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Calla

People whose public names include Calla, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Calla by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,397
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 163
Best rank ever
#633
1881
Peak year
2017
176 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,408
Count in 2025
156

Names similar to Calla

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Calla

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Calla, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

IsadoraGittyJaelLeenaKalinaMariellaViviannaKlaraAvalonArielaEmaElly

Sibling names for Calla

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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