Kalii
#6,428 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kalii has been given to 202 babies in the U.S. since 2009. In 2025 it ranked #6,428 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 21 recorded.
Babies named Kalii, 2025
1 in 184,000
Kalii 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kalii?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 184,000
- 18 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 89,300
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #6,428
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 127,662 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kalii 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 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kalii. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kaliis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kalii was born before 2019 — so the typical Kalii is around 6 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 49.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 202
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 49.5% of all recorded uses (100).
Is Kalii 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
- +357
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −683
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,005
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.13×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 85.7%
- Peak was 2020 (21)
- Years since peak
- 5
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.8% average annual change
Spellings of Kalii
Kalii is not the most common spelling — Katie is, with 22.2% against Kalii's 0.02%.
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.
Kalii around the world
Where Kalii 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.
- South Australia2012–2012#871in 2012
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Kalii by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kalii
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kalii
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.