Kale
Kale is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 18 births. Its best rank was 504th, in 2008.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 180.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2008544 births
- Best rank
- #504in 2008
- Since 1917
- 7,594people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,368 boys have been named Kale in the United States since 1917, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2008, with 544 births.
The name has all but left use: 18 births in 2024, against 544 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2006, and the 2000s alone account for 39%. It has spent 19 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 226 girls have also been given it, 3.0% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Kale | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 6 | |
| 1920s | 11 | |
| 1930s | 5 | |
| 1940s | 6 | |
| 1950s | 41 | |
| 1960s | 117 | |
| 1970s | 322 | |
| 1980s | 745 | |
| 1990s | 1,070 | |
| 2000s | 2,879 | |
| 2010s | 2,059 | |
| 2020s | 107 |
In 2008, its biggest year
Kale was the 504th 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 Kale
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Giovanypeak 2010
- Jeramiahpeak 2010
- Jathanpeak 2012
- Yamilpeak 2008
- Alexsanderpeak 2009
- Tavinpeak 2009
- Brodeypeak 2008
- Giovannypeak 2010
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.