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Kalli

#2,974 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Karl

Kalli has been given to 5,317 babies in the U.S. since 1952. In 2025 it ranked #2,974 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 259 recorded.

Babies named Kalli, 2025

1 in 59,200

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kalli: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Karl

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kalli means

Kalli is a diminutive of Karl.

Origin, language, and formation

Kalli is used in Icelandic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Karl.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Icelandic, Kalli is pronounced [ˈkʰal(ː)ɪ].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,317 girls were recorded with the name Kalli between 1952 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 259 in 2007; its best national rank was #1,022 in 2007.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,586 in 2020 to #2,974 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,977 in 2015 to #2,974 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 Kalli?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 59,200
56 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 28,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,974
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
41,035 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kalli 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 41,035 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kalli. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kallis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kalli was born before 2003 — so the typical Kalli is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
31.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
56.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,317
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Choose a decade

2000s — 31.6% of all recorded uses (1,678).

Is Kalli 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
+453
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−388
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−997
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.55×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
21.6%
Peak was 2007 (259)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,022
2007

Spellings of Kalli

Kalli is not the most common spelling — Kelly is, with 23.6% against Kalli's 0.26%.

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 Kalli is used

Across 2016–2025, Kalli was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 43,299 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 20,000
  2. 2Indiana1 in 25,000
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 25,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 25,000
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 33,333
  6. 6Michigan1 in 33,333
  7. 7Ohio1 in 33,333
  8. 8South Carolina1 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.

Kalli around the world

Where Kalli 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
    1997–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2003–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2021
    #3,354
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1984–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Kalli

People whose public names include Kalli, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Kalli by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,974
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 388
Best rank ever
#1,022
2007
Peak year
2007
259 that year
First recorded
1952
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,317
Count in 2025
56

Names similar to Kalli

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

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Names with a curve like Kalli

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

NataliAleaUniqueKalynnKinseyKeilaImanTaylaKeeleyElyssaAnisaJessalyn

Sibling names for Kalli

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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