Kale

Where Kale comes from

Kale hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1385
    Kale Kyetaungnyo born
    King of Ava
  2. 1917
    First appearance
    #3,545 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1950
    Kale Browne born
    American actor
  4. 2008
    Peak, #504
    544 babies named Kale — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2013
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #829.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Kale Browne · American actor, born 1950
  • Kale Kyetaungnyo · King of Ava, 1385–1426

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.