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Calle

Gender
Girl
Say it
KAL-ee
Origin
Modern

Calle is a girls' name of Modern origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

Where does Calle come from?

Modern: spelling of Callie; in Sweden Calle is a boys' pet form of Carl

Is Calle a girl's or a boy's name?

Calle is a girls' name.

How popular is Calle in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1998, with 12 girls. It first appears in the records in 1978.

Half of all the girls named Calle in the US since 1880 were born between 1991 and 2003, the years shaded on the chart below.

1978Busiest: 12 in 19982012
Calle in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20125#16,863
20110–
20105#16,985
20090–
200810#10,802
20070–
200610#10,606
200510#10,123
20047#12,754
200310#9,666
200210#9,476
20018#11,013
200012#8,020
199911#8,216
199812#7,527
199710#8,329
19969#8,807
19955#13,380
19945#13,423
19938#9,552
19929#8,726
19918#9,328
199010#7,874
19899#8,031
19888#8,386
19875#11,320
19866#9,540
19855#10,672
19846#9,139
19830–
19820–
19810–
19800–
19790–
19785#9,748

Names like Calle

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Calle: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/calle, updated 20 October 2026.