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Kalie

#5,817 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Callie

Kalie has been given to 5,313 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #5,817 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 265 recorded.

Babies named Kalie, 2025

1 in 158,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kalie: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Callie

surname transfer

What Kalie means

Kalie is a variant of Callie.

Origin, language, and formation

Kalie is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Kalie is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Callie and Kaylee.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,313 girls were recorded with the name Kalie between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 265 in 1998; its best national rank was #801 in 1998.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,308 in 2020 to #5,817 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,984 in 2015 to #5,817 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 Kalie?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 76,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,817
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kalie 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kalie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kalies were born

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

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
41.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
38.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5,313
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 41.8% of all recorded uses (2,219).

Is Kalie 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
+54
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,509
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,833
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.36×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.9%
Peak was 1998 (265)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#801
1998

Spellings of Kalie

Kalie is not the most common spelling — Alice is, with 13.5% against Kalie's 0.12%.

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 Kalie is used

Across 1910–2025, Kalie was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 44,441 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 20,000
  2. 2Indiana1 in 25,000
  3. 3Utah1 in 25,000
  4. 4California1 in 33,333
  5. 5Georgia1 in 33,333
  6. 6Michigan1 in 33,333
  7. 7Minnesota1 in 33,333
  8. 8Missouri1 in 33,333

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. Kalie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kalie around the world

Where Kalie 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
    1997–2022
    #5,670
    in 2022
  • France
    1997–2025
    #2,208
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #2,973
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1964–1998
    #467
    in 1998

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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.

Kalie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,817
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,509
Best rank ever
#801
1998
Peak year
1998
265 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,313
Count in 2025
21

Names similar to Kalie

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

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Names with a curve like Kalie

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

ViridianaKaelaKaylanAlyssiaAllyssaYesseniaYessicaKeyannaKeyanaJasmyneKeannaBrieanna

Sibling names for Kalie

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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