Kalle — unisex name

What the Data Says About Kalle

The Social Security Administration has registered 325 babies named Kalle between 1977 and 2013, spanning 37 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kalle currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2013. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 39 babies received it in a single year. Kalle is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 33 additional births since 1989.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kalle performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 123 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Kalle shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Ohio, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kalle in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kalle in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 325 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.