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Kahle

Gender
Boy
Say it
KAYL
Origin
Modern

Kahle is a boys' name of Modern origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

Where does Kahle come from?

Modern: probably a variant of Kale or Kyle; also a German surname

Is Kahle a girl's or a boy's name?

Kahle is a boys' name.

How popular is Kahle in the US?

No boys in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2007, with 13 boys. It first appears in the records in 1987.

Half of all the boys named Kahle in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2011, the years shaded on the chart below.

1987Busiest: 13 in 20072017
Kahle in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20176#10,770
20160–
20150–
20147#9,636
20138#8,784
20120–
20119#8,072
201011#7,081
200911#7,231
200813#6,388
200713#6,259
20060–
20058#8,292
20046#9,941
20030–
20020–
20016#9,236
20000–
19995#9,905
19980–
19970–
19960–
19950–
19940–
19935#8,693
19920–
19910–
19900–
19890–
19880–
19877#5,453

Names like Kahle

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Kahle: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kahle, updated 20 October 2026.