Kali

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Kali: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #223 in 2021, and it stood at #885 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
53times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#223highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1646
1997	#2411
1998	#995
1999	#1018
2000	#1475
2001	#1439
2002	#998
2003	#1383
2004	#1012
2005	#1165
2006	#1325
2007	#1854
2008	#1447
2009	#1526
2010	#1520
2011	#1729
2012	#2969
2013	#1774
2014	#1562
2015	#2195
2016	#1370
2017	#1219
2018	#1887
2019	#1063
2020	#771
2021	#1128
2022	#1081
2023	#941
2024	#837

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: #351 among girls in Scotland, #441 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #837 among girls in England and Wales.

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

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1646 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 recorded2008–2021
Highest recorded position: #223 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2021 (recorded 2008–2021).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #885 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Kali 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 611 births with the name.

Kali 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.

Kali'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	#1646 (1996)	#771 (2020)	#837 (2024)	29 of 29	611 (1996–2024)	47 (2020)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#549 (2007)	#347 (2019)	#885 (2025)	16 of 19	107 (2007–2025)	12 (2019)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#439 (2008)	#223 (2021)	#223 (2021)	5 of 14	22 (2008–2021)	8 (2021)
England and Wales · Boys	#4702 (2019)	#3848 (2020)	#3848 (2020)	2 of 2	7 (2019–2020)	4 (2020)

Kali 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 Kali in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	57	4 of 10	14
2000s	176	10 of 10	18
2010s	189	10 of 10	19
2020sbusiest	189	5 of 10	38

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 38 births a year.

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

Kali 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: #223 in Northern Ireland in 2021.

Kali'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	#837	44	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#941	37	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1081	31	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1128	30	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#771	47	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#3848	4	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1063	32	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#4702	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1887	15	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1219	28	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1370	24	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2195	12	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1562	19	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1774	16	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2969	8	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1729	16	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1520	19	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1526	18	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1447	19	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1854	13	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1325	19	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1165	21	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1012	24	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1383	15	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#998	22	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1439	13	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1475	12	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1018	20	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#995	21	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2411	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1646	10	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#223	8	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#336	4	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#361	4	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#440	3	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#885	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#441	8	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#364	10	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#420	9	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#390	10	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#628	5	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#347	12	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#396	10	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#515	7	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#581	6	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#768	4	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#937	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#593	6	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#742	4	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#549	6	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#351	9	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 #223, first reached in 2021.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 47 births, registered in England and Wales in 2020.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2007, 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.

Kalen · #629, 29y
Kaley · #432, 23y
Kalia · #2178, 18y
Kaliah · #2771, 12y

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.

Lennie · #224, 30y
Roxy · #224, 28y
Alaya · #225, 26y
Hayleigh · #226, 32y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Nicolle · #223, 30y
Rianna · #223, 29y
Tomos · #223, 29y
Bailie · #224, 26y

Kali was ranked #223 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2021. 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.

Kali 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 Kali without appearing here.

Kali moved ahead of

Denise Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2969 and #1720 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1774 and #4739.
Kerry Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2969 and #2215 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1774 and #4739.
Suzanne Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2969 and #2969 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1774 and #4739.
Levi Compare
In 2015 they stood at #2195 and #2070 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #1370 and #4096.

Moved ahead of Kali

Blake Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1562 and #2203 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #2195 and #1240.
Ida Compare
In 2006 they stood at #1325 and #1435 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #1854 and #987.
Rita Compare
In 2010 they stood at #1520 and #1653 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #1729 and #1067.
Fiadh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1219 and #2502 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1887 and #1436.

Moved the opposite way to Kali

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kali went from #1646 to #837 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kali went from #1646 to #837 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kali went from #1646 to #837 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kali went from #1646 to #837 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Kali

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kali went from #1646 to #837 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kali went from #1646 to #837 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kali went from #1646 to #837 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kali went from #1646 to #837 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
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Nicknames and spelling variants

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: #223 in Northern Ireland in 2021. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Kali

Kali at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kali across 4 official records

Kali by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Kali appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Kali at a glance

Kali across 4 official records

Kali by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Kali 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 Kali

Kali and the names beside it

Kali moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Kali

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