Kalè
surname · Latin script
Kalè is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from English Charles.
- DMDominica1 in 25K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 36K
- DKDenmark1 in 84K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 97 (measured from records)
- 1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
4,145 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Dominica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kale in US United States, IN India.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- EnglishCharles(measured from records)
- LatinCarolus(inferred from the name graph)via Charles
- Proto-Germanic*karlaz“free man”(inferred from the name graph)via Charles
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
Borrowed from English Charles.
Cited for this meaning 5
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kalè counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
4,145 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kalè mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from English Charles. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Kalè have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 4.1 thousand people named Kalè, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kale.
- Where is Kalè most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kalè is densest in Dominica — about 1 in 25 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kalè?
- In India, the national register counted 4,145 people named Kalè, about 1 in 320 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kal%C3%A8The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kalè”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.