Cale
Last seen for girls in 2010 at #12,276 · #2,718 for boys in 2025, 47 births
Given to boys 99.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1984 · 203 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 8,207since 1917
Cale over time
Rank among boys' names. Cale has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,718 | 47 | |
| 2024 | — | #3,216 | 37 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,629 | 31 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,873 | 44 | |
| 2021 | — | #3,427 | 33 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,886 | 41 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,851 | 43 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,848 | 42 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,270 | 58 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,706 | 91 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,279 | 140 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,093 | 175 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,054 | 180 | |
| 2012 | — | #909 | 227 | |
| 2011 | — | #833 | 259 | |
| 2010 | #12,276 | 8 | #691 | 339 |
| 2009 | #9,975 | 11 | #669 | 366 |
| 2008 | #8,529 | 14 | #624 | 395 |
| 2007 | #7,394 | 17 | #714 | 323 |
| 2006 | #4,265 | 34 | #741 | 288 |
| 2005 | — | #758 | 262 | |
| 2004 | — | #778 | 233 | |
| 2003 | — | #754 | 237 | |
| 2002 | — | #746 | 232 | |
| 2001 | — | #837 | 194 | |
| 2000 | — | #839 | 191 | |
| 1999 | — | #903 | 166 | |
| 1998 | — | #855 | 170 | |
| 1997 | — | #981 | 132 | |
| 1996 | — | #914 | 143 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,016 | 119 | |
| 1994 | — | #958 | 132 | |
| 1993 | — | #916 | 138 | |
| 1992 | — | #864 | 150 | |
| 1991 | — | #862 | 148 | |
| 1990 | — | #921 | 125 | |
| 1989 | — | #926 | 120 | |
| 1988 | — | #801 | 140 | |
| 1987 | — | #717 | 162 | |
| 1986 | — | #688 | 173 | |
| 1985 | — | #642 | 186 | |
| 1984 | — | #596 | 203 | |
| 1983 | — | #763 | 128 | |
| 1982 | — | #950 | 89 | |
| 1981 | — | #954 | 89 | |
| 1980 | — | #894 | 100 | |
| 1979 | — | #901 | 94 | |
| 1978 | — | #920 | 88 | |
| 1977 | — | #847 | 102 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,056 | 62 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,053 | 62 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,082 | 58 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,253 | 43 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,230 | 45 | |
| 1971 | — | #933 | 76 | |
| 1970 | — | #921 | 75 | |
| 1969 | — | #989 | 60 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,393 | 31 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,760 | 9 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,216 | 13 | |
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| 1964 | — | #3,601 | 6 | |
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| 1959 | — | #3,988 | 5 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,944 | 5 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,257 | 7 | |
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| 1955 | — | #3,886 | 5 | |
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| 1952 | — | #3,734 | 5 | |
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| 1947 | — | #3,370 | 6 | |
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| 1943 | — | #3,538 | 5 | |
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| 1931 | — | #3,763 | 5 | |
| 1930 | — | #3,592 | 6 | |
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| 1922 | — | #4,307 | 5 | |
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| 1917 | — | #2,956 | 8 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Cale! It came in at #2,956, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1918–1929, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Cale is popular in 1989
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Nebraska#242 · 1 in 2,198
- Oklahoma#257 · 1 in 2,055
- Iowa#279 · 1 in 3,038
- Wisconsin#355 · 1 in 4,137
- Pennsylvania#519 · 1 in 8,141
Best ever in a state: #126 in Nebraska, 1993.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Nebraska | #242 | 5 | 1 in 2,198 |
| Oklahoma | #257 | 10 | 1 in 2,055 |
| Iowa | #279 | 6 | 1 in 3,038 |
| Wisconsin | #355 | 8 | 1 in 4,137 |
| Pennsylvania | #519 | 10 | 1 in 8,141 |
| Indiana | #528 | 5 | 1 in 7,923 |
| Michigan | #693 | 6 | 1 in 11,572 |
| Texas | #876 | 11 | 1 in 13,464 |
| California | #1,660 | 7 | 1 in 38,379 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Cale
- 498 spots since 2024 (#3,216 → #2,718)
- 168 spots since 2020 (#2,886 → #2,718)
- 1,439 spots since 2015 (#1,279 → #2,718)
- Biggest jump: 404 spots in 1969 (#1,393 → #989)
- Biggest drop: 297 spots in 1972 (#933 → #1,230)
- Debuted 1917
- Peaked 1984 at #596 (203 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 32 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 38 yrs · run 1977–1994
- Highest: 1 in 5,165 boys born in 2008 were named Cale (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 36,342 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #596 in 1984, was only 1 in 8,891 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 33.2% of all boys named Cale (2,721) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 8 | #2,956 (1917) | #2,956 |
| 1920s | 5 | #4,307 (1922) | #4,307 |
| 1930s | 11 | #3,592 (1930) | #3,678 |
| 1940s | 11 | #3,370 (1947) | #3,454 |
| 1950s | 27 | #3,257 (1957) | #3,762 |
| 1960s | 119 | #989 (1969) | #2,192 |
| 1970s | 705 | #847 (1977) | #1,020 |
| 1980s | 1,390 | #596 (1984) | #793 |
| 1990s | 1,423 | #855 (1998) | #919 |
| 2000s | 2,721 | #624 (2008) | #746 |
| 2010s | 1,554 | #691 (2010) | #1,553 |
| 2020s | 233 | #2,718 (2025) | #3,125 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Cale in 1989
Top boys' names in 1989
More about 1989
boys
2,000,928 boys got a published name in 1989; 1 in 16,674 of them was named Cale, which outranked 90.0% of the 9,232 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).