Calla Girl
How popular is Calla?
#1,396 girl name in 2025
156 baby girls were named Calla in the US in 2025, making it the 1396th most popular girl name.
Calla popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #1,396 for girls (▲ 113 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 156 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (+11% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,566 in 2015, #1,559 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2017 (176 girls) |
| Highest rank | #623 in 1881 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Calla counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Calla family of names ranked #958 for girls in 2025 (#1,060 the year before), with 221 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Calla | 156 | 71% |
| Kala | 10 | 5% |
| Calah | 19 | 9% |
| Kalla | 14 | 6% |
| Cala | 9 | 4% |
| Callah | 13 | 6% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Calla is most popular
Babies named Calla per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Colorado: 0.2 per 1,000 (22 girls)
- Washington: 0.2 per 1,000 (22 girls)
- Virginia: 0.1 per 1,000 (23 girls)
- Maryland: 0.1 per 1,000 (13 girls)
- Illinois: 0.1 per 1,000 (28 girls)
Calla by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 79 | #623 |
| 1890s | 83 | #872 |
| 1900s | 51 | #1,101 |
| 1910s | 97 | #1,656 |
| 1920s | 100 | #2,463 |
| 1930s | 59 | #2,642 |
| 1940s | 52 | #3,392 |
| 1950s | 111 | #2,518 |
| 1960s | 51 | #4,772 |
| 1970s | 66 | #3,862 |
| 1980s | 266 | #1,951 |
| 1990s | 440 | #2,264 |
| 2000s | 770 | #1,947 |
| 2010s | 1,350 | #1,321 |
| 2020s | 833 | #1,396 |
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Questions
- Is Calla a boy or girl name?
- Calla is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Calla were girls.
- How popular is the name Calla?
- 156 baby girls were named Calla in the US in 2025, making it the 1396th most popular girl name.
- When was Calla most popular?
- Calla peaked in 2017, when 176 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #623 in 1881.
- How many people are named Calla?
- 4,408 babies have been named Calla in the US since 1880. We estimate about 3,879 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 15.
- Where is Calla most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Calla was most common in Colorado, at 0.2 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.