# Kale (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/kale/  
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 | 7,605 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 7,379 / 226 (3% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 175, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 7 | 11,399 |
| 1998 | 5 | 15,260 |
| 1999 | 6 | 13,461 |
| 2000 | 6 | 13,996 |
| 2001 | 6 | 14,381 |
| 2003 | 5 | 16,990 |
| 2005 | 10 | 10,504 |
| 2006 | 23 | 5,812 |
| 2007 | 18 | 7,238 |
| 2008 | 23 | 6,030 |
| 2009 | 15 | 8,242 |
| 2010 | 13 | 8,959 |
| 2011 | 5 | 18,129 |
| 2012 | 11 | 10,055 |
| 2013 | 5 | 17,888 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 424 | 590 |
| 2012 | 325 | 722 |
| 2013 | 259 | 830 |
| 2014 | 216 | 971 |
| 2015 | 177 | 1,097 |
| 2016 | 101 | 1,607 |
| 2017 | 62 | 2,177 |
| 2018 | 46 | 2,688 |
| 2019 | 26 | 4,059 |
| 2020 | 25 | 4,081 |
| 2021 | 28 | 3,871 |
| 2022 | 23 | 4,503 |
| 2023 | 13 | 6,708 |
| 2024 | 18 | 5,336 |
| 2025 | 11 | 7,419 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3 | 5,669 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 6 | 2,189 |
| 2004 | 12 | 1,410 |
| 2005 | 5 | 2,754 |
| 2006 | 11 | 1,643 |
| 2007 | 6 | 2,741 |
| 2008 | 9 | 2,097 |
| 2009 | 8 | 2,318 |
| 2010 | 13 | 1,724 |
| 2011 | 9 | 2,194 |
| 2012 | 15 | 1,589 |
| 2013 | 20 | 1,247 |
| 2014 | 9 | 2,248 |
| 2015 | 12 | 1,902 |
| 2017 | 5 | 3,449 |
| 2018 | 4 | 3,959 |

## People named Kale

- Kale Browne, American actor

## 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.