Callie

Meaning: Free man
Origin: Germanic — Short form of Caroline

Girl's name · #175 in the US (2025) · Comeback

Popularity over time

Callie was #124 in 1880, slipped to #1189 by 1966, and has climbed back to #175 today. Roughly 70,000 girls have been named Callie since 1880. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 47 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#61 in Scotland (2025) · #92 in N. Ireland (2025) · #173 in Ireland (2025) · #186 in England & Wales (2025) · #213 in Canada (2025) · #591 in France (2025) · #1,478 in Switzerland (2025) · #2,203 in Sweden (2025) · #92 in Australia (NSW) (2023) · #1,371 in Belgium (2023) · #8,539 in Italy (2022) · #6,278 in Ecuador (2017).

Famous Callies

Callie Thorne — American actress (born 1969)
Callie Khouri — American screenwriter, producer, and director (born 1957)
Callie Hernandez — American actress (born 1988)
Callie Cooke — English actress (born 1992)
Callie Hart — British romance and fantasy author (born 1983)

In stories & tradition

Callie Torres — Fictional character in Grey's Anatomy
Callie — Splatoon (video game)

What Callies become

Among 56 notable people named Callie:

Sports figures appear 2× more often than among typical names — e.g. Callie Brownson, American football player and coach (born 1989).

Spellings & nicknames

Together with its spelling variant Kallie (#934), Callie would rank around #144 with about 2,000 births last year — the newborns split about 86/14 between Callie and Kallie.

Similar names: Cali · Daisy · Kate · Allie · Mabel · Rosalie

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