Kali

girls:

30.5k births since 1957

#805 (86th percentile)

boys:

862 births since 1970

#3725 (19th percentile)

overall:

31.4k births since 1957

#1436 (81st percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1957 2023 19572023

Key Statistics

Total Births
30,491
Peak Births
1,311
Peak Year
2019
First Recorded
1957
Peak Percentile
75.4%
Current Percentile
71.0%
Peak Rank
#233
Current Rank
#275
Female statistics
Total Births
862
Peak Births
43
Peak Year
2020
First Recorded
1970
Peak Percentile
4.2%
Current Percentile
2.6%
Peak Rank
#638
Current Rank
#887
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Kali

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Kali. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 81.8% confident that Kali is pronounced as KAH-lee. The next most likely pronunciation is KAY-lee, at 18.2% confidence.

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81.8%
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KAY-lee (2 syllables)
18.2% confidence
K EY1 L IY0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

KAW-lee (2 syllables)
3 names 67.4k births
K AO1 L IY0

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 AA1 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.