Kali
#323 for girls in 2025, 948 births · #4,249 for boys in 2025, 24 births
Given to girls 97.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2019 · 1,312 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 32,527since 1957
Kali over time
Rank among girls' names. Kali has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #323 | 948 | #4,249 | 24 |
| 2024 | #295 | 1,073 | #4,200 | 25 |
| 2023 | #290 | 1,072 | #3,802 | 29 |
| 2022 | #250 | 1,228 | #3,774 | 29 |
| 2021 | #284 | 1,123 | #2,862 | 43 |
| 2020 | #253 | 1,181 | #2,806 | 43 |
| 2019 | #241 | 1,312 | #2,943 | 41 |
| 2018 | #274 | 1,208 | #3,446 | 32 |
| 2017 | #302 | 1,089 | #3,123 | 37 |
| 2016 | #300 | 1,086 | #3,293 | 34 |
| 2015 | #267 | 1,187 | #3,591 | 30 |
| 2014 | #261 | 1,260 | #4,138 | 24 |
| 2013 | #363 | 872 | #4,463 | 21 |
| 2012 | #420 | 748 | #5,256 | 17 |
| 2011 | #493 | 602 | #9,600 | 7 |
| 2010 | #537 | 545 | #5,741 | 15 |
| 2009 | #501 | 602 | #6,095 | 14 |
| 2008 | #504 | 618 | #6,763 | 12 |
| 2007 | #486 | 668 | #5,901 | 14 |
| 2006 | #541 | 549 | #6,904 | 11 |
| 2005 | #526 | 554 | #8,299 | 8 |
| 2004 | #543 | 527 | #4,602 | 18 |
| 2003 | #562 | 494 | #4,426 | 18 |
| 2002 | #552 | 495 | #5,395 | 13 |
| 2001 | #469 | 592 | #4,121 | 19 |
| 2000 | #425 | 660 | #4,204 | 18 |
| 1999 | #375 | 763 | #5,035 | 13 |
| 1998 | #400 | 686 | #6,843 | 8 |
| 1997 | #348 | 800 | #4,668 | 13 |
| 1996 | #332 | 850 | #5,187 | 11 |
| 1995 | #348 | 756 | #6,992 | 7 |
| 1994 | #388 | 650 | #3,596 | 18 |
| 1993 | #420 | 595 | #4,020 | 15 |
| 1992 | #403 | 630 | #5,660 | 9 |
| 1991 | #453 | 560 | #4,476 | 12 |
| 1990 | #444 | 558 | #7,178 | 6 |
| 1989 | #497 | 472 | — | |
| 1988 | #584 | 348 | #5,751 | 7 |
| 1987 | #573 | 346 | #3,959 | 11 |
| 1986 | #559 | 359 | #4,853 | 8 |
| 1985 | #591 | 329 | #4,333 | 9 |
| 1984 | #589 | 306 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #774 | 206 | #4,907 | 7 |
| 1982 | #910 | 166 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,082 | 129 | #3,412 | 12 |
| 1980 | #1,373 | 91 | #3,430 | 12 |
| 1979 | #1,952 | 53 | #2,465 | 19 |
| 1978 | #1,581 | 68 | #2,799 | 15 |
| 1977 | #1,701 | 61 | #3,037 | 13 |
| 1976 | #1,968 | 45 | #2,826 | 14 |
| 1975 | #1,586 | 62 | #3,078 | 12 |
| 1974 | #1,499 | 65 | #2,129 | 20 |
| 1973 | #2,267 | 34 | #3,013 | 11 |
| 1972 | #1,804 | 47 | #2,819 | 12 |
| 1971 | #1,575 | 61 | #3,146 | 10 |
| 1970 | #2,450 | 30 | #4,230 | 6 |
| 1969 | #3,461 | 16 | — | |
| 1968 | #4,779 | 9 | — | |
| 1967 | #3,845 | 12 | — | |
| 1966 | #4,493 | 9 | — | |
| 1965 | #5,817 | 6 | — | |
| 1964 | #4,355 | 10 | — | |
| 1963 | #5,891 | 6 | — | |
| 1962 | #5,293 | 7 | — | |
| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 | — | |
| 1960 | #5,168 | 7 | — | |
| 1959 | #4,625 | 8 | — | |
| 1958 | #4,890 | 7 | — | |
| 1957 | #5,377 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kali! It came in at #5,377, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1960–1963, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
See more about Kali
- 28 spots since 2024 (#295 → #323)
- 70 spots since 2020 (#253 → #323)
- 56 spots since 2015 (#267 → #323)
- Biggest jump: 185 spots in 1984 (#774 → #589)
- Biggest drop: 83 spots in 2002 (#469 → #552)
- Debuted 1957
- Peaked 2019 at #241 (1,312 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 44 yrs · run 1982–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,279 girls born in 2019 were named Kali (0.08%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,695 girls born in 2025 (0.06%)
- 30.5% of all girls named Kali (9,909) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 21 | #4,625 (1959) | #4,964 |
| 1960s | 87 | #3,461 (1969) | #4,967 |
| 1970s | 526 | #1,499 (1974) | #1,838 |
| 1980s | 2,752 | #497 (1989) | #753 |
| 1990s | 6,848 | #332 (1996) | #391 |
| 2000s | 5,759 | #425 (2000) | #511 |
| 2010s | 9,909 | #241 (2019) | #346 |
| 2020s | 6,625 | #250 (2022) | #283 |
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.
Kali in 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 1,497 of them was named Kali, which outranked 98.4% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 58,985 of them was named Kali, which outranked 73.3% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,712Yanky30
- #3,712Zaelyn30
- #3,712Zakhi30
- #3,802Kali29
- #3,802Agam29
- #3,802Aldair29
- #3,802Amaree29
- #3,883Aayush28
- #3,883Acre28
- #3,883Alim28
Tied with 80 names at #3,802; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.