Kale

At the 2020 census, 3,778 Americans bore the surname Kale — 8,395th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 79,100.

By the numbers

People: 3,778
Rank: 8,395th
How common: 1 in 79,100
Per 100,000: 1.3

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Kale described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 59.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 30.0%
Black, not Hispanic 4.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Hispanic or Latino 2.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Surnames like Kale

Also a first name

Kale has been given to 7,605 American babies as a first name since 1917, peaking in 2008. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.