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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Cal

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

#543

up +127 places

2025 births

554

up +145 births

All-time births

7,858

7% of them in 2025

More common than

97%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2025
554 births
Best rank
#393
in 1880
First recorded
1880
#393 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1990
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
143 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 2025554#543Peak
  2. 2024409#670
  3. 2023373#712
  4. 2022343#748
  5. 2021263#879

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #393 in 1880 · peak births 554 in 2025

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 100% boys■ 0% girls

7,858 boys · 10 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Cal has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.