Kahle
Kahle was last recorded in 2017, when 6 babies were given it; 115 Americans have been recorded with it between 1987 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kahle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kahle?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,456, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 2007, the peak
Kahle peaked in 2007, when 13 boys were given it, #6,441 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 6 | #11,456 | 3.2 |
| 2014 | 7 | #10,167 | 3.6 |
| 2013 | 8 | #9,210 | 4.2 |
| 2011 | 9 | #8,416 | 4.7 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,317 | 5.7 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,454 | 5.5 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,585 | 6.4 |
| 2007 | 13 | #6,441 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,694 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,638 | 3.0 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 6 | #9,900 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,747 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,443 | 2.5 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,778 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kahle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kahle has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 14 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kahle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kahle, and how old are they?
An estimated 113 Americans named Kahle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 15 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 244 people named Kahle (48 women and girls, 196 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 114 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Kahle?
Kahle is a less common spelling of Cale: SSA has recorded 115 Kahle and 8,291 Cale since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 19,533 babies since 1880, Kahle is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 426 babies recorded by SSA was a Kahle (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kahle
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Kahle and names like it
- Compare Kahle and CaleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKahle peaked in 2007.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Kahle.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kahle alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.