The KALE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,094	9641	0.001	12
United States (1880 census)	804	6518	0.002	16
Change since 1880	+2290	-3123	-0.001	-4
Other Countries
Australia	41	29984	0	3
United Kingdom	225	15305	0	5

Top States for KALE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	482	2324	0.006	60
California	331	8103	0.001	10
Ohio	254	5462	0.002	22
Pennsylvania	240	6367	0.002	20
Texas	218	8348	0.001	10
Top States for KALE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	482	2324	0.006	60
Montana	31	4395	0.003	34
South Carolina	109	4378	0.003	27
Ohio	254	5462	0.002	22
Alaska	14	7153	0.002	22

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called KALE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called KALE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called KALE in North Carolina than any other state, but you are more likely to find a KALE by picking someone at random in North Carolina than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of KALE

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: India

Language of origin: Hindi

Religious origin: Muslim

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the KALE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of KALE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Asian/Pacific	301	9.73
Black/African American	192	6.21
White (Hispanic)	51	1.65
Mixed Race	46	1.49
Native American/Alaskan	27	0.87
White (Caucasian)	2,477	80.06

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the KALE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to KALE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KALE.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.