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Cale - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Cale

[ 1 syll. ca-le, cal-e ] The boy name Cale is pronounced as KEYL KEY. Cale is an English name of Irish Gaelic and Hebrew origin. From Irish Gaelic and Hebrew roots, its meaning is thin, slender. The English Calen, the English Calin, the English Kail, the English and Hawaiian Kale, the English and German Kalen, and the English Kayle are variant forms of the name.

In addition, Cale is a short form of the English name Caleb.

Cale is rather popular as a baby boy name. The name has been rising in popularity since the 1990s. At the modest peak of its usage in 2008, 0.018% of baby boys were named Cale. It was #623 in rank then. Out of the family of boy names directly related to Cale, the English Caleb was the most widely used in 2008. It was 27 times more regularly used than Cale in that year.

Baby names that sound like Cale include the English Cael, the English Kail, the English and Hawaiian Kale, the English Kayle, the English, Scottish, and Irish Cal, the English Clay, the English Cole, the Scottish Coll, the English Kal, the Finnish, German, and Scandinavian Kalle, the English Kele, the English and German Kell, the English Kelle, the English Kiel, the English Kile, the Scandinavian Kjell, the English Kole, the English Kyle, the Irish Cahal, and the name Cahil.

KEY: Pronunciation for Cale: K as in "key (K.IY)" ; EY as in "ate (EY.T)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)"


 
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