Khale
Khale was last recorded in 2019, when 6 babies were given it; 179 Americans have been recorded with it between 2002 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Khale by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Khale?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,507, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
27 babies in 2011, the peak
Khale peaked in 2011, when 27 boys were given it, #3,846 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 6 | #11,507 | 3.3 |
| 2016 | 5 | #13,295 | 2.6 |
| 2015 | 11 | #7,318 | 5.7 |
| 2014 | 13 | #6,480 | 6.8 |
| 2013 | 20 | #4,720 | 10.6 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,540 | 4.7 |
| 2011 | 27 | #3,846 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 25 | #4,054 | 13.0 |
| 2009 | 5 | #13,556 | 2.5 |
| 2008 | 21 | #4,633 | 10.3 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 10 | #7,907 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,401 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,734 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,721 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,958 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Khale a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Khale has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 15 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Khale: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Khale, and how old are they?
An estimated 177 Americans named Khale and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 13 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 224 people named Khale (30 women and girls, 194 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 177 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Khale rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
Names spelled alike
Khale is a less common spelling of Cale: SSA has recorded 179 Khale and 8,291 Cale since 1880.
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Khale
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.