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Cally

Girls' name

Variant of Callie

Cally has been given to 1,773 babies in the U.S. since 1948. 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 1990, with 114 recorded.

Babies named Cally, 2024

1 in 418,000

Cally over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cally: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Callie

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cally means

Cally is a variant of Callie.

Origin, language, and formation

Cally is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Callie.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,773 girls were recorded with the name Cally between 1948 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 114 in 1990; its best national rank was #1,382 in 1990.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Cally?

Cally 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 418,000
8 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 203,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
289,633 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cally 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 2024 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 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cally. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Callys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cally was born before 1991 — so the typical Cally is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
28.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
29.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,767
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 28.9% of all recorded uses (512).

Is Cally 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 1990 (114)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,382
1990

Spellings of Cally

Cally is not the most common spelling — Kelly is, with 21.9% against Cally's 0.08%.

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 Cally is used

Across 1910–2025, Cally was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 478,601 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Iowa1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Louisiana1 in —
  7. 7Michigan1 in —
  8. 8Ohio1 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. Cally has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cally around the world

Where Cally 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
    1996–2025
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1985–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2018–2018
    #434
    in 2018
  • France
    1997–2025
    #5,165
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2015
    #3,185
    in 2015
  • South Australia
    1977–2008
    #796
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA 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.

Cally 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
#1,382
1990
Peak year
1990
114 that year
First recorded
1948
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
1,773
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Cally

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

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Sibling names for Cally

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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