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How popular is “Cali” in the USA?

Number of people named “Cali” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Cali” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Cali” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Cali” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Cali” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Cali” by birth year

This chart shows how “Cali” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1959 6 0.000001443 6 100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 100%
1963 11 0.000002779 11 100%
1965 5 0.000001379 5 100%
1966 6 0.000001726 6 100%
1967 6 0.000001767 6 100%
1969 8 0.000002302 8 100%
1970 7 0.000001941 7 100%
1971 7 0.000002039 7 100%
1972 9 0.000002864 9 100%
1973 17 0.000005635 17 100%
1974 16 0.000005263 16 100%
1975 21 0.000006955 21 100%
1976 22 0.00000725 22 100%
1977 23 0.000007241 23 100%
1978 30 0.000009452 30 100%
1979 23 0.000006913 17 6 48%
1980 29 0.000008419 29 100%
1981 22 0.00000636 22 100%
1982 43 0.000012258 43 100%
1983 47 0.000013571 47 100%
1984 46 0.000013185 46 100%
1985 128 0.000035863 128 100%
1986 96 0.000026988 96 100%
1987 96 0.000026625 96 100%
1988 76 0.000020568 76 100%
1989 132 0.000034335 132 100%
1990 148 0.000037445 148 100%
1991 122 0.00003132 122 100%
1992 128 0.000033322 128 100%
1993 128 0.00003395 128 100%
1994 111 0.000029858 111 100%
1995 141 0.000038502 141 100%
1996 171 0.000046885 171 100%
1997 201 0.000055437 201 100%
1998 235 0.00006389 235 100%
1999 266 0.000072011 266 100%
2000 277 0.000073282 277 100%
2001 257 0.000068654 257 100%
2002 284 0.000075971 284 100%
2003 317 0.00008337 317 100%
2004 346 0.000090554 346 100%
2005 450 0.00011704 450 100%
2006 492 0.000124362 482 10 96%
2007 664 0.000166096 664 100%
2008 740 0.000188263 740 100%
2009 739 0.000193447 732 7 98%
2010 765 0.000206995 757 8 98%
2011 828 0.000226366 816 12 97%
2012 954 0.000260843 946 8 98%
2013 1145 0.000314071 1133 12 98%
2014 1687 0.000455162 1663 24 97%
2015 1467 0.000396389 1437 30 96%
2016 1232 0.000335814 1200 32 95%
2017 1153 0.00032241 1128 25 96%
2018 1224 0.000348133 1188 36 94%
2019 1251 0.000360422 1216 35 94%
2020 1138 0.00034066 1087 51 91%
2021 992 0.000292803 967 25 95%
2022 869 0.000256862 842 27 94%
2023 709 0.000214122 683 26 93%
2024 632 0.000189875 618 14 96%

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