Calley
#12,156 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Calley has been given to 956 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #12,156 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1990, with 41 recorded.
Babies named Calley, 2025
1 in 474,000
Calley 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Calley?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 230,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #12,156
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Calley 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Calley. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Calleys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Calley was born before 1994 — so the typical Calley is around 31 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 32.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 30.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 956
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 32.6% of all recorded uses (312).
Is Calley 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
- −843
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +3,407
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,689
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.17×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 17.1%
- Peak was 1990 (41)
- Years since peak
- 35
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.5% average annual change
Spellings of Calley
Calley is not the most common spelling — Sally is, with 15.5% against Calley'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 Calley is used
Across 1910–2025, Calley was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 725,464 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Oklahoma1 in —
- 3Texas1 in —
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. Calley has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Calley around the world
Where Calley 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 & Wales1997–2023#5,688in 2023
- Scotland1986–2015#806in 2015
- Canada2007–2007#2,743in 2007
- South Australia1982–2002#730in 2002
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Calley by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Calley
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Calley
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.