Cale

Where Cale comes from

Cale hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1917
    First appearance
    #2,956 among boys, 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 — more than any year before or since.
  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

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

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.