Masculine dossier · first seen 1917

Kale

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Kale
Creator: Social Security Administration

Endangered Down 96.7% from peak

Peak era

2008

Peak rank proxy

544

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Gen Z

1917Peak 20082024

Peak year

2008

Decline from peak

96.7%

2024

All-time

7,368

Kale once had enough force to mark a generation, but its current usage is a small remnant of that peak. The name still exists, yet now reads as a timestamp: personal, recognizable, and culturally receding.

Your name peaked in 2008, when 544 boys were named Kale.

In 2024, only 18 boys were given the name.

Down 96.7% from its peak.

All told, about 7,368 Americans have been named Kale and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1917.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationGen Z

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 96.7% from peak

2008544 boys named Kale

202418 boys named Kale

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