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Cala

The girl's name Cala has been in the national records since 1950, with 502 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 10,107th. About 490 Calas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 28.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Cala

By the numbers

Total US births
502
Estimated living today
490
Median age today
28
Peak year
1990
Best rank
3,523rd
Rank in 2025
10,107th
First recorded
1950

How old the living Calas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 502 babies given the name since 1950, about 490 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1997 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Calas

People named Cala with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Names of 1990

The most popular girls’ names the year Cala peaked:

All the names of 1990

Where Cala lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 258 women called Cala were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Balears, Illes Cala 17 0.027 1,987
Girona Cala 9 0.022 2,174
Almería Cala 7 0.019 2,416
Valencia/València Cala 24 0.017 2,365
Palmas, Las Cala 10 0.017 3,759
Castellón/Castelló Cala 5 0.016 2,669

Listed in 14 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 38 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.