How rare is the name Callie?

43,600 people in the United States have the first name Callie, about 1 in 6,927. It ranks #986 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

CALLIE

#986

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
43,600
About
1 in 6,927
This common or more
69.8%
Who bears it

Of the 43,600 people named Callie, 82.4% reported their origin as White, 6.5% as Black and 4.6% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.5%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Callie peaked in 2014, when 1,763 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
2014
Births that year
1,763
In 2025*
1,754 ▼1%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 70,827 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Callie by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #237. The largest share of babies named Callie, 30.2%, were born in 2013 or later.

1880s#2371,553
1890s#2672,162
1900s#3112,200
1910s#5493,155
1920s#7013,163
1930s#8421,982
1940s#1,1121,517
1950s#1,5081,238
1960s#1,7631,046
1970s#1,3891,808
1980s#7985,070
1990s#5999,416
2000s#59110,916
2010s#45815,504
2020s#40810,097
Before 19015.7%
Greatest Generation 1901–2710.9%
Silent Generation 1928–454.9%
Baby boom 1946–643.3%
Generation X 1965–803.5%
Millennials 1981–9615.7%
Generation Z 1997–1225.8%
2013 and later30.2%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Callie is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Callie has been most common in Mississippi (2.8×), Tennessee (2.4×), and Alabama (2.4×), and least common in New York (0.36×).

60,811 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Callie

#984 Braden · 43,698#985 Elsie · 43,606#987 Tomas · 43,589#988 Dominick · 43,551

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Callie, most common first.

#4,545 Calli · 4,053#9,775 Caylie · 1,402#9,787 Calie · 1,400#16,385 Callee · 689#20,724 Callia · 496#28,553 Calle · 314#35,884 Cailie · 223#44,846 Caelie · 153

Also a last name

As a last name, Callie ranks #129,703 of 156,621, with 137 people. See Callie as a last name

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