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Citlali

#1,381 in 2025Girls' name

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Citlali has been given to 4,519 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #1,381 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 272 recorded.

Babies named Citlali, 2025

1 in 20,900

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Citlali: meaning, origin, and history

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Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Citlali means

Citlali means “star”, associated with cītlalli.

Origin, language, and formation

Citlali is used in Spanish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Citlali is pronounced /θiˈtlali/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,519 girls were recorded with the name Citlali between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 272 in 2005; its best national rank was #916 in 2005.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,106 in 2020 to #1,381 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,094 in 2015 to #1,381 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Citlali?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 20,900
159 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 10,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,381
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
14,453 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Citlali 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 14,453 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Citlali. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Citlalis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Citlali was born before 2007 — so the typical Citlali is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
50.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,519
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 50.9% of all recorded uses (2,302).

Is Citlali 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
+210
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+725
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+713
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.71×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
58.5%
Peak was 2005 (272)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#916
2005

Spellings of Citlali

Citlali is the most-used spelling, taking 28.6% of the 15,823 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Citlali is used

Across 2016–2025, Citlali was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 4,762 girls, against 1 in 8,631 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 100,000).

121 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 4,762
  2. 2Texas1 in 7,692
  3. 3Illinois1 in 10,000
  4. 4Nevada1 in 10,000
  5. 5Oregon1 in 14,286
  6. 6Arizona1 in 25,000
  7. 7Washington1 in 25,000
  8. 8New York1 in 50,000

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.

Citlali around the world

Where Citlali 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.

  • France
    1992–2025
    #6,976
    in 2025

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Citlali by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,381
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 725
Best rank ever
#916
2005
Peak year
2005
272 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,519
Count in 2025
159

Names similar to Citlali

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

CitlalyCitlalliXitlaliNataliMagaliAnjaliDenaliCitaliSonaliNathaliAnaliHaliYetzaliNeftaliKhaliCitlallyAnnaliCittlaliQuetzaliLoraliAdaliTaliMaliRosali

Names with a curve like Citlali

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

JailynSheylaIyannaIyanaShreyaLluviaAniaTrinitiYamiletSamariaKyaKarime

Sibling names for Citlali

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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