Kahle
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a nickname for a bald person; 'bald'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkɑɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kahle is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 104K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 167K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 309 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a nickname for a bald person; 'bald'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kahle 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Kahle | 138 |
| US United States | 3,195 | 1 in 104K | 3.2K | Kahle | 309 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 351K | — | Kahle | 2 |
| CA Canada | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 92K | — | Kahle | 34 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 167K | listed | Kahle | 25 |
| SG Singapore | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Kahle | 1 |
| AT Austria | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 115K | — | Kahle | 15 |
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. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kahle is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Personenname aus dem Merkmal 'kahl' = glatzköpfig, haarlos; Bearer count: 2233.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In Zulu, nicely, well, properly
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, shackle, fetter
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In izh, chain
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ss, well
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Paul Kahleb. 1875DEGerman orientalist (1875–1964)
- Marie Kahleb. 1893DEGerman pedagogue (1893–1948)
- Hans Kahleb. 1899DEGerman journalist and head of police (1899-1947)
- Sigrid Kahleb. 1928SESwedish journalist and writer (1928-2013)
- Franz Kahleb. 1959DEGerman judge, politician, jurist and lawyer
- Brewster Kahleb. 1960USAmerican computer engineer and founder of the Internet Archive
- Bronna Kahleb. 1968USAmerican politician
- Matthias Kahleb. 1969DEGerman racing driver
- Manon Kahleb. 1980USAmerican actress
- Danielle Kahleb. 1989USfigure skater
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.2K | #10,088 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.1K | #9,536 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.1K | #9,915 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kahle mean, and where does it come from?
- from a nickname for a bald person; 'bald' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Kahle?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɑɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kahle have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.1 thousand people named Kahle in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kahle.
- How common is the name Kahle?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,195 people named Kahle in 2010, about 1 in 104 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kahleThe 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, “Kahle”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.