A diminutive of Caroline, Callie goes back to the Germanic name Karl. It was either derived from ‘karlaz’ meaning ‘man’, or from ‘harjaz’ meaning ‘army’.
Callie is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Callie isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Callie ranks 184. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 10 were named Callie. In the entire USA, approximately 55,705 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Callie. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Callie annualy. This means that there have been girls named Callie who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Callie have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Callie even more than any other time: in 1880, it holds its present record of rank #121 in the list of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Callie was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Callie has never been ranked higher than #121. In 2022, she rivaled the 176 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 1,572 girls named Callie were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Callie were born, there have been 945 newborns who received this name.
The name Callie may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Callie is apparently especially popular in Mississippi. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 889 women in Mississippi is called Callie. In total, that’s 2,165 women who feel addressed when the name Callie is shouted loudly across Mississippi and who ensure that their name makes it to #222 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Callie as the answer a total of 55,673 times. This places Callie at #485 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Callie as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
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 Callie 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 Callie 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 Callie, you can simply say:
Cat
Apple
Lion
Lion
Igloo
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Callie
Callie
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
A
L
L
I
E
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
E
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. Callie sounds like this:
