Cali

Where Cali comes from

Cali hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1959
    First appearance
    #5,566 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1963
    Cali Timmins born
    Canadian actress
  3. 1988
    Cali Sweets born
    American pornographic actress
  4. 2014
    Peak, #202
    1,664 babies named Cali — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2023
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #450.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Cali Sweets · American pornographic actress, born 1988
  • Cali Timmins · Canadian actress, born 1963
  • Cali Farquharson · American soccer player, born 1993

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.