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Kalias vs Kallie

American parents have registered 12,683 Kallies since 1880, against 58 Kaliases. Kallie is still ahead, with 279 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kalias against Kallie, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kalias Kallie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Kallie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1923 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Kalias had 24 and Kallie had 279.

Side by side

  Kalias Kallie
Total US births 5812,683
Most in one year 24444
Babies in 2025 24279
Estimated living today 6013,000
Median age today 117
Peak year 20252014
Best rank 4,249th boys642nd girls
Rank in 2025 4,249th933rd
First recorded 20231923
Girls / boys 0 / 5812,683 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Kallies alive today are over 17; half the Kaliases are over 1. That is 16 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kalias and Kallie.