girls:
84 births since 2006
#5632 (1st percentile)
boys:
8.1k births since 1917
#1308 (71st percentile)
overall:
8.2k births since 1917
#2981 (61st percentile)
The name Cale is the #2,981 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,207 recorded births since 1917. This represents the 61.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 61.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,308 (71.5% percentile) for all time with 8,123 births since 1917. For girls, it ranks #5,632 (1.4% percentile) for all time with 84 births since 2006.
Cale first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1917 (1917 for boys and 2006 for girls). Birth data for Cale is available in 70 out of the 107 years between 1917 and 2023 (70 years for boys and 5 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Cale has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Cale reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 39.5% percentile (ranked #549) with 181 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 181 births per million (ranked 39.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2010, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Cale ranks #885 for boys (2.9% percentile) with 17 births per million, which is 9.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Cale reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 3.0% percentile (ranked #937) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 2006, with 16 births per million (ranked 3.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2010.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cale".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Cale is pronounced as kayl, which has 1 syllables.
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