Calley is a female first name.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Calley in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Calley in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Calley by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Calley ranks at #9,705. That means there are 9,704 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Calley.
In fact, the name Calley hardly fits the trend of first names for girls. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Calley wasn't given at all (or at least less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), but by 1990, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 2,593, 41 parents chose it in 1990 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Calley, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Calley was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Calley a few times. Among all newborn girls, it ranked 11,784, for a total of 6 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it didn't appear at all for a many years. As Calley seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
The first name Calley is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 42 Americans in total bear this name. And these 42 women are located in only three states: California, Oklahoma and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 women with this name in the state. So, if your name is Calley and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most girls and women named Calley in relation to it’s female population is Texas. And yet even there, only one in 350,172 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Calley.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for girls' names. This is because 6.0% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With six letters, the name Calley is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.0% of all girls' names that begin with a C, this first letter is much more common than the average of all letters. And which girls’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Carol.
If your name is Calley and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Calley, you can simply say:
Cat
Apple
Lion
Lion
Elephant
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Calley
Calley
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
A
L
L
E
Y
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
C
A
L
L
E
Y
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Calley sounds like this:
