girls:
325 births since 1977
#5391 (6th percentile)
boys:
33 births since 1989
#4553 (1st percentile)
overall:
358 births since 1977
#7381 (5th percentile)
The name Kalle is the #7,381 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 358 recorded births since 1977. This represents the 4.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,391 (5.7% percentile) for all time with 325 births since 1977. For boys, it ranks #4,553 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 33 births since 1989.
Kalle first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1977 (1977 for girls and 1989 for boys). Birth data for Kalle is available in 35 out of the 39 years between 1977 and 2015 (34 years for girls and 6 years for boys). 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 Kalle has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 90.8% of all recorded births being female. In 2015, 0.0% of babies named Kalle were girls.
For girls, Kalle reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 3.9% percentile (ranked #840) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 20 births per million (ranked 3.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2013.
For boys, Kalle reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #753) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2015.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kalle".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Kalle. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 32.4% confident that Kalle is pronounced as kal, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAH-luh, at 26.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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