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 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Nebraska#191 · 1 in 692
- Iowa#217 · 1 in 833
- Oklahoma#264 · 1 in 1,129
- Kansas#270 · 1 in 1,196
- Missouri#357 · 1 in 1,968
Best ever in a state: #126 in Nebraska, 1993.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nebraska | #191 | 15 | 1 in 692 |
| Iowa | #217 | 19 | 1 in 833 |
| Oklahoma | #264 | 19 | 1 in 1,129 |
| Kansas | #270 | 14 | 1 in 1,196 |
| Missouri | #357 | 17 | 1 in 1,968 |
| Indiana | #394 | 16 | 1 in 2,337 |
| Colorado | #404 | 13 | 1 in 2,211 |
| Washington | #437 | 15 | 1 in 2,464 |
| Minnesota | #457 | 10 | 1 in 2,920 |
| Wisconsin | #478 | 9 | 1 in 3,189 |
| Ohio | #489 | 18 | 1 in 3,481 |
| Arkansas | #524 | 5 | 1 in 3,005 |
| Oregon | #529 | 6 | 1 in 3,219 |
| Mississippi | #547 | 5 | 1 in 2,981 |
| Louisiana | #556 | 8 | 1 in 3,130 |
| Tennessee | #587 | 9 | 1 in 4,036 |
| Michigan | #618 | 11 | 1 in 4,487 |
| Utah | #670 | 5 | 1 in 4,597 |
| Alabama | #676 | 5 | 1 in 4,832 |
| North Carolina | #708 | 10 | 1 in 5,384 |
| Florida | #764 | 16 | 1 in 5,956 |
| Arizona | #779 | 6 | 1 in 6,656 |
| Georgia | #799 | 10 | 1 in 5,902 |
| Pennsylvania | #847 | 8 | 1 in 7,765 |
| Illinois | #992 | 8 | 1 in 9,069 |
| Texas | #1,009 | 18 | 1 in 10,359 |
| California | #1,012 | 21 | 1 in 11,531 |
| New York | #1,214 | 9 | 1 in 11,968 |
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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 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
Top boys' names in 2009
More about 2009
girls
1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 167,010 of them was named Cale, which outranked 50.6% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #9,379Zuzu12
- #9,379Zyiah12
- #9,379Zyniah12
- #9,975Cale11
- #9,975Aamani11
- #9,975Aanika11
- #9,975Aariona11
- #10,679Aalaya10
- #10,679Aaliyan10
- #10,679Aaria10
Tied with 703 names at #9,975; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,983,573 boys got a published name in 2009; 1 in 5,420 of them was named Cale, which outranked 95.4% of the 14,540 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.