Calla

Where Calla comes from

Calla 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. 1850
    Calla Curman born
    Swedish writer and feminist
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #738 among girls — 6 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1881
    Peak, #623
    8 babies named Calla — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1889
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 1960
    Calla Urbanski born
    American figure skater
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Calla Curman · Swedish writer and feminist, 1850–1935
  • Calla Urbanski · American figure skater, born 1960

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.