Cale
Cale is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 37 births. Its best rank was 596th, in 1984.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 370.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2008395 births
- Best rank
- #596in 1984
- Since 1917
- 8,160people given the name
The story in the numbers
8,160 boys have been named Cale in the United States since 1917, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2008, with 395 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2001, and the 2000s alone account for 33%. It has spent 38 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Cale | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 8 | |
| 1920s | 5 | |
| 1930s | 11 | |
| 1940s | 11 | |
| 1950s | 27 | |
| 1960s | 119 | |
| 1970s | 705 | |
| 1980s | 1,390 | |
| 1990s | 1,423 | |
| 2000s | 2,721 | |
| 2010s | 1,554 | |
| 2020s | 186 |
In 2008, its biggest year
Cale was the 624th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2008 were Jacob, Michael, Ethan, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 2008.
Names that rose and fell with Cale
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Davinpeak 2007
- Nathenpeak 2006
- Cristopherpeak 2007
- Jermiahpeak 2010
- Adreanpeak 2009
- Garinpeak 2006
- Evinpeak 2005
- Colinpeak 2004
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.