Cale

Where Cale comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Cale.

  • Vowel-ended
Cale through the years
  1. 1917
    First appearance
    #2,956 among boys with 8 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1939
    Cale Yarborough born
    American racecar driver
  3. 1984
    Peak, #596
    203 babies named Cale, its best rank.
  4. 1998
    Cale Makar born
    Canadian ice hockey player
  5. 2016
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,706.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Cale Makar · Canadian ice hockey player, born 1998
  • Cale Yarborough · American racecar driver, 1939–2023
  • Cale Fleury · Canadian ice hockey player, born 1998
  • Cale Case · American politician, born 1958
  • Cale Hulse · Canadian ice hockey player, born 1973

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.