Calli is a first name for girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Calli is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 5 out of 100,000 girls have been named Calli. In the SmartGenius ranking, Calli is #2,222 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Calli.
In fact, the name Calli hardly fits the trend of first names for girls. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Calli 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 1,085, 150 parents chose it in 1990 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Calli, 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 Calli was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Calli a few times. Among all newborn girls, it ranked 3,272, for a total of 41 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 Calli seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
You may not know anyone named Calli, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 29 states are home to women and girls named Calli. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Calli living in one state or another. If your name is Calli and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Utah, which has the most people named Calli relative to the population, you still have to ask 17,697 women and girls their names before you hear Calli as an answer just once.
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 five letters, the name Calli is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. 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 Calli 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 Calli, you can simply say:
Cat
Apple
Lion
Lion
Igloo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Calli
Calli
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
A
L
L
I
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
I
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. Calli sounds like this:
