Kali

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Kali is ranked 294th among girls in 2024 (1,066 births). Its best rank was 242nd, in 2019.

Rank in 2024: #294down 4 from 2023
Births in 2024: 1,0660.07% of girls
Peak year: 20191,311 births
Best rank: #242in 2019
Since 1957: 32,455people given the name

Babies named Kali, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

31,568 girls have been named Kali in the United States since 1957, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2019, with 1,311 births.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 261 → 294).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2009, and the 2010s alone account for 31%. It has spent 43 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 887 boys have also been given it, 2.7% of the total.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Kali
1950s	21
1960s	87
1970s	526
1980s	2,752
1990s	6,848
2000s	5,759
2010s	9,906
2020s	5,669

In 2019, its biggest year

Kali was the 242nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2019 were Olivia, Emma, Ava, Sophia and Isabella. See all of 2019.

Names that rose and fell with Kali

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.