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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Cale” in the USA?

Number of people named “Cale” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Cale” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Cale” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Cale” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Cale” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Cale” by birth year

This chart shows how “Cale” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1917 8 0.000003987 8 -100%
1922 5 0.000002184 5 -100%
1930 6 0.000002699 6 -100%
1931 5 0.000002376 5 -100%
1943 5 0.000001771 5 -100%
1947 6 0.000001666 6 -100%
1952 5 0.000001316 5 -100%
1955 5 0.000001245 5 -100%
1957 7 0.000001666 7 -100%
1958 5 0.00000121 5 -100%
1959 5 0.000001203 5 -100%
1964 6 0.000001543 6 -100%
1966 13 0.00000374 13 -100%
1967 9 0.000002651 9 -100%
1968 31 0.000009176 31 -100%
1969 60 0.000017265 60 -100%
1970 75 0.000020796 75 -100%
1971 76 0.000022142 76 -100%
1972 45 0.000014318 45 -100%
1973 43 0.000014253 43 -100%
1974 58 0.000019079 58 -100%
1975 62 0.000020534 62 -100%
1976 62 0.000020433 62 -100%
1977 102 0.000032111 102 -100%
1978 88 0.000027726 88 -100%
1979 94 0.000028254 94 -100%
1980 100 0.000029032 100 -100%
1981 89 0.000025727 89 -100%
1982 89 0.000025371 89 -100%
1983 128 0.000036959 128 -100%
1984 203 0.000058187 203 -100%
1985 186 0.000052114 186 -100%
1986 173 0.000048635 173 -100%
1987 162 0.00004493 162 -100%
1988 140 0.000037889 140 -100%
1989 120 0.000031214 120 -100%
1990 125 0.000031626 125 -100%
1991 148 0.000037995 148 -100%
1992 150 0.00003905 150 -100%
1993 138 0.000036602 138 -100%
1994 132 0.000035506 132 -100%
1995 119 0.000032495 119 -100%
1996 143 0.000039208 143 -100%
1997 132 0.000036406 132 -100%
1998 170 0.000046218 170 -100%
1999 166 0.000044939 166 -100%
2000 191 0.00005053 191 -100%
2001 194 0.000051825 194 -100%
2002 232 0.00006206 232 -100%
2003 237 0.00006233 237 -100%
2004 233 0.00006098 233 -100%
2005 262 0.000068143 262 -100%
2006 322 0.000081391 34 288 -79%
2007 340 0.000085049 17 323 -90%
2008 409 0.000104054 14 395 -93%
2009 377 0.000098687 11 366 -94%
2010 347 0.000093892 8 339 -95%
2011 259 0.000070808 259 -100%
2012 227 0.000062067 227 -100%
2013 180 0.000049374 180 -100%
2014 175 0.000047216 175 -100%
2015 140 0.000037829 140 -100%
2016 91 0.000024804 91 -100%
2017 58 0.000016218 58 -100%
2018 42 0.000011946 42 -100%
2019 43 0.000012389 43 -100%
2020 41 0.000012273 41 -100%
2021 33 0.00000974 33 -100%
2022 44 0.000013006 44 -100%
2023 31 0.000009362 31 -100%
2024 37 0.000011116 37 -100%

Explore other names

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  5. Caldwell
  6. Cale (this page)
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  10. Caleal
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