# Cale (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/cale/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 8,291 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 8,207 / 84 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 161, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 34 | 4,276 |
| 2007 | 17 | 7,451 |
| 2008 | 14 | 8,615 |
| 2009 | 11 | 10,101 |
| 2010 | 8 | 12,493 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 259 | 833 |
| 2012 | 227 | 911 |
| 2013 | 180 | 1,054 |
| 2014 | 175 | 1,093 |
| 2015 | 140 | 1,279 |
| 2016 | 91 | 1,706 |
| 2017 | 58 | 2,278 |
| 2018 | 42 | 2,853 |
| 2019 | 43 | 2,864 |
| 2020 | 41 | 2,891 |
| 2021 | 33 | 3,432 |
| 2022 | 44 | 2,879 |
| 2023 | 31 | 3,640 |
| 2024 | 37 | 3,227 |
| 2025 | 47 | 2,722 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 8 | 1,651 |
| 2003 | 15 | 1,132 |
| 2004 | 9 | 1,732 |
| 2005 | 5 | 2,754 |
| 2006 | 6 | 2,538 |
| 2007 | 6 | 2,741 |
| 2008 | 14 | 1,511 |
| 2009 | 12 | 1,749 |
| 2010 | 6 | 2,941 |
| 2011 | 6 | 2,892 |
| 2012 | 3 | 4,805 |
| 2014 | 5 | 3,362 |
| 2015 | 7 | 2,707 |
| 2016 | 5 | 3,478 |
| 2018 | 3 | 4,749 |

## People named Cale

- Cale Makar, Canadian ice hockey player
- Cale Yarborough, American racecar driver (1939–2023)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.