Cali

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Cali: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Cali: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #192, and it stood at #885 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
63times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#192highest recorded position
15groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3126
1997	#2411
1998	#3142
1999	#2444
2000	#2746
2001	#2783
2002	#2301
2003	#3099
2004	#3197
2005	#4798
2006	#3116
2007	#2085
2008	#1815
2009	#1526
2010	#2235
2011	#1327
2012	#1342
2013	#1291
2014	#1005
2015	#871
2016	#822
2017	#764
2018	#519
2019	#474
2020	#439
2021	#549
2022	#562
2023	#558
2024	#610

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #192 among girls in Northern Ireland, #215 among girls in Scotland, #610 among girls in England and Wales, #631 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3126 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2011–2024
Highest recorded position: #192 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2024 (recorded 2011–2024).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #885 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Cali appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 900 births with the name.

Cali across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Cali's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3126 (1996)	#439 (2020)	#610 (2024)	29 of 29	900 (1996–2024)	96 (2020)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#758 (2010)	#271 (2019)	#885 (2025)	15 of 16	117 (2010–2025)	17 (2019)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#363 (2011)	#192 (2024)	#192 (2024)	12 of 14	62 (2011–2024)	9 (2024)
England and Wales · Boys	#3987 (2012)	#2160 (2023)	#3688 (2024)	6 of 13	36 (2012–2024)	10 (2023)

Cali by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Cali in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	20	4 of 10	5
2000s	79	10 of 10	8
2010s	430	10 of 10	43
2020sbusiest	371	5 of 10	74

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 74 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2017 and 2018, when recorded births rose by 30, from 52 to 82.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Cali appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #192 in Northern Ireland in 2024.

Cali's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#610	64	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#3688	5	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#558	69	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2160	10	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#562	69	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#549	73	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2730	7	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#439	96	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#474	88	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3937	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#519	82	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3011	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#764	52	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#822	46	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#871	42	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1005	36	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1291	26	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1342	24	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3987	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1327	23	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2235	11	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1526	18	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1815	14	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2085	11	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3116	6	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3197	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3099	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2301	7	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2783	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2746	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2444	6	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3142	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2411	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3126	4	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#192	9	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#237	7	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#266	6	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#298	5	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#246	6	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#263	6	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#361	4	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#432	3	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#353	4	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#327	5	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	female	#363	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#885	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#631	5	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#364	10	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#458	8	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#336	12	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#444	8	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#271	17	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#280	16	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#430	9	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#661	5	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#431	10	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#752	4	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#907	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#758	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#215	17	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #192, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 96 births, registered in England and Wales in 2020.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2010, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Calem · #303, 13y
Calen · #2254, 18y
Calin · #755, 15y
Calista · #871, 27y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Ace · #191, 29y
Malachi · #191, 31y
Nyla · #193, 28y
Ilyas · #194, 34y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Eire · #192, 21y
Ace · #191, 29y
Ayat · #193, 26y
Ieuan · #193, 29y

Cali was ranked #192 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Cali and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Cali without appearing here.

Cali moved ahead of

Vicki Compare
In 2011 they stood at #4798 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #1342 and #5876.
Jeanette Compare
In 2006 they stood at #4798 and #4798 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #2085 and #5201.
Lynette Compare
In 2008 they stood at #3116 and #2509 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1526 and #4564.
Pauline Compare
In 2008 they stood at #1815 and #1718 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1526 and #3936.

Moved ahead of Cali

Harper Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3197 and #3725 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #4798 and #2682.
Daithi Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2160 and #3112 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #3688 and #3254.
Liv Compare
In 2024 they stood at #631 and #898 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2025 that had become #885 and #608.
Violet Compare
In 2013 they stood at #327 and #370 in Northern Ireland · Girls; by 2014 that had become #439 and #191.

Moved the opposite way to Cali

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Cali went from #3126 to #610 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Cali went from #3126 to #610 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Cali went from #3126 to #610 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Cali went from #3126 to #610 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Cali

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Cali went from #3126 to #610 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Cali went from #3126 to #610 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Cali went from #3126 to #610 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Cali went from #3126 to #610 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #192 in Northern Ireland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Cali

Cali at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Cali across 4 official records

Cali by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Cali appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Cali and the names beside it

Cali moved ahead of

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Cali at a glance

Cali across 4 official records

Cali by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Cali appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Cali

Cali and the names beside it

Cali moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Cali

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