Caldonia

Last seen for girls in 2016 at #16,215

Peak · girls
1882 · 8 births
Debut · girls
8 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
706
since 1882

Caldonia over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Caldonia has never cracked the top 600 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201906peak #678, 1882girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1949#3,39310
1948#4,2057
1947#4,3457
1946#3,21710
1945#1,74323
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1943#2,86111
1942#2,66612
1941#3,5597
1940#3,5037
1939#3,1458
1938#3,4507
1937#4,2555
1936#3,1038
1935#1,84518
1934#2,9239
1933#3,1098
1932#3,2748
1931#3,8486
1930#2,42513
1929#4,5705
1928#2,95410
1927#2,09518
1926#1,99719
1925#1,84722
1924#2,51414
1923#1,84022
1922#2,18617
1921#2,12018
1920#2,59013
1919#1,52727
1918#1,56626
1917#1,70821
1916#2,02816
1915#1,88317
1914#1,60317
1913#1,76612
1912#1,62012
1911#1,9567
1910#1,20714
1909#1,10414
1908#1,26111
1907#1,28910
1906#89517
1905#1,23810
1904#1,09211
1903#1,4407
1902#1,7935
1901#1,1369
1900#97015
1899#1,3946
1898#1,5026
1897#1,5555
1896#1,1229
1895#1,05310
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1893#1,2776
1892#1,1717
1891#1,0937
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1888#1,1366
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1884#1,0245
1883#8176
1882#6788
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First appearance
1882

The first year at least five girls were named Caldonia! It came in at #678, and was given to 8 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1884–1887, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Caldonia is popular in 1906

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Caldonia
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2016
  • Biggest jump: 424 spots in 1900 (#1,394 → #970)
  • Biggest drop: 394 spots in 1907 (#895 → #1,289)
Rise & fade · girls
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1882
  • Peaked 1882 at #678 (8 births)
  • Births halved by 1885, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 4 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 1882–1883
Share of babies · girls
1 in 13,481
  • Highest: 1 in 13,481 girls born in 1882 were named Caldonia (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 354,404 girls born in 2016 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1910s
  • 23.9% of all girls named Caldonia (169) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s25#678 (1882)#914
1890s56#1,053 (1895)#1,271
1900s109#895 (1906)#1,222
1910s169#1,207 (1910)#1,686
1920s158#1,840 (1923)#2,471
1930s90#1,845 (1935)#3,138
1940s94#1,743 (1945)#3,277
1950s0——
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2010s5#16,215 (2016)#16,215

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Caldonia in 1906

girls
#895
17 births · 1 in 17,370 girls

Top girls' names in 1906

  1. #1Mary16,370
  2. #2Helen7,176
  3. #3Margaret6,096
  4. #4Anna5,502
  5. #5Ruth5,140
  6. #6Dorothy4,326
  7. #7Elizabeth4,320
  8. #8Alice4,192
  9. #9Mildred3,873
  10. #10Florence3,691
  11. #895Caldonia17
More about 1906

girls

295,297 girls got a published name in 1906; 1 in 17,370 of them was named Caldonia, which outranked 59.7% of the 2,220 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Caldonia
  1. #872Palma18
  2. #872Salome18
  3. #872Verla18
  4. #895Caldonia17
  5. #895Adline17
  6. #895Alba17
  7. #895Alvera17
  8. #917Aida16
  9. #917Alicia16
  10. #917Amber16

Tied with 21 names at #895; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1905
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,036Lavera#1,931 → #895
  2. ↑ 1,014Luberta#1,931 → #917
  3. ↑ 1,014Williemae#1,931 → #917
  4. ↑ 851Evelyne#1,696 → #845
  5. ↑ 851Gregoria#1,696 → #845
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,126Dulcie#825 → #1,951
  2. ↓ 1,051Zelpha#900 → #1,951
  3. ↓ 930Sydney#797 → #1,727
  4. ↓ 855Lester#872 → #1,727
  5. ↓ 801Alvira#926 → #1,727

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1906 →