Calvary
#7,202 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Calvary has been given to 260 babies in the U.S. since 2009. In 2025 it ranked #7,202 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 16 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 56% girls, 44% boys all-time.
Babies named Calvary, 2025
1 in 221,000
Calvary 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Calvary over time
In 2025, Calvary went to 43% girls and 57% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Calvary?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 221,000
- 15 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 107,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #7,202
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 153,194 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Calvary 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Calvary. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Calvarys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Calvary was born before 2018 — so the typical Calvary is around 7 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 52.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 146
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 52.1% of all recorded uses (76).
Is Calvary 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
- +459
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +5,184
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +9,741
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 3.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 93.8%
- Peak was 2017 (16)
- Years since peak
- 8
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 36.0% average annual change
Spellings of Calvary
Calvary is not the most common spelling — Dalary is, with 55.0% against Calvary's 2.6%.
Calvary by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Calvary
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Calvary
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.