Name meaning & stats
Kali
Kali (Sanskrit origin). 33,438 US babies since 1940, peak 2019.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
Sanskrit
In US birth records
Peak year: 2019
33,438 US babies were named Kali between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Kali (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
1 in 5 Callies spell it Kali
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2019)