Calle

Girls' name

Free man, through Carl

Calle has been given to 218 babies in the U.S. since 1978. 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 1998, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Calle, 2012

1 in 732,000

Calle over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Calle: meaning, origin, and history

Free man, through Carl

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Calle means

Calle belongs to the name family reached through Calle → Carl → Karl. Its meaning is “free man”.

Origin, language, and formation

Calle is used in Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Carl and Karl.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Swedish, Calle is pronounced /²kalɛ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 218 girls were recorded with the name Calle between 1978 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1998; its best national rank was #7,615 in 1998.

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.

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How common is Calle?

Calle had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012: 1 in 732,000; 5 of 3,657,590 births
Among girls only: 1 in 352,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2012: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 507,051 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Calle 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 2012 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 507,051 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Calle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Calles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Calle was born before 1998 — so the typical Calle is around 27 today.

Median birth year: 1998; About 27 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 39.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 87.6%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 218; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 39.9% of all recorded uses (87).

Is Calle 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: —; 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 1998 (12)
Years since peak: 27; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 20.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #7,615; 1998

Spellings of Calle

Calle is not the most common spelling — Chloe is, with 16.3% against Calle's 0.01%.

Chloe16.3%254,389
Sally13.1%205,229
Carla9.6%150,390
Carole7.1%110,688
Camille4.8%75,722
Callie4.5%70,190
Carly4.3%66,466
Gayle3.9%61,357

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.

Calle by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #7,615; 1998
Peak year: 1998; 12 that year
First recorded: 1978
Last recorded: 2012
All-time count: 218
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Calle

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

Calea Caliya Calaya Calah Calena Calin Calen Caliah Calani Cala Calynn Calise Caleesi Calayah Callia Callyn Calia Callen Caliann Caleya Calvary Caliope Calie Caleah

Sibling names for Calle

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

For a sister

Reilly Reanna Serina Isela Shae Taya Allyssa Katerina

For a brother

Demarco Marquez Ronaldo Tariq Jaren Marshal Samual Jovan

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