Calli
given name · Latin script
Meaning: plural of callus (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/kaʎi/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated · uncertain
Calli is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 4,053 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020.
- USUnited States1 in 82K(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 260Kfew records
- CACanada≈1 in 360Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 265 (measured from records)
- 1 in 82K (inferred from the name graph)
4,053 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Calli
- Spanish:/kaʎi/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)plural of callus
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Calli counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 4,053 | 1 in 82K | 4K | Calli | 265 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 407K | 4 | Calli | 86 |
| IN India | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 12M | — | Calli | 6 |
| CA Canada | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 364K | 2 | Calli | 58 |
| AU Australia | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 259K | 1 | Calli | 43 |
| SG Singapore | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 459K | — | Calli | 6 |
4,053 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Calli is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In nci, an enclosed habitational space, a house or room
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, genitive singular of callum
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, inflection of callar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nhe, house.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ext, street
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Calli Thackeryb. 1993GBEnglish runner
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)32 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Calli mean, and where does it come from?
- plural of callus Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Calli?
- In Spanish /kaʎi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Calli a male or female name?
- Calli is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people named Calli?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.1 thousand people named Calli, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled calli. After it come United Kingdom, India, Canada and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Calli most common?
- Calli is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 82 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Calli?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,053 people named Calli in 2020, about 1 in 82 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/calliThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Calli” — ranked 4545th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.