Cali

girls:

22.2k births since 1959

#958 (83rd percentile)

boys:

373 births since 1979

#4213 (8th percentile)

overall:

22.6k births since 1959

#1688 (78th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cali".

1959 2023 19592023

Key Statistics

Total Births
22,183
Peak Births
1,663
Peak Year
2014
First Recorded
1959
Peak Percentile
79.6%
Current Percentile
56.9%
Peak Rank
#198
Current Rank
#409
Female statistics
Total Births
373
Peak Births
51
Peak Year
2020
First Recorded
1979
Peak Percentile
5.1%
Current Percentile
2.3%
Peak Rank
#687
Current Rank
#890
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Cali

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Cali. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 58.8% confident that Cali is pronounced as KA-lee. The next most likely pronunciation is KAH-lee, at 35.3% confidence.

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Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Cali. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Cali, please vote using the thumbs up button.

KAW-lee (2 syllables)
3 names 67.4k births
K AO1 L IY0
keh-UH-lee (3 syllables)
1 name 269 births
K EH0 AH1 L IY0

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like K AE1 L IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.