Calle
Calle is a Scandinavian, mostly Swedish, masculine given name, nickname and surname that is a diminutive form of Carl and Karl and an alternate form of Kalle. Calle is also a surname. Notable people referred to by this name include the following:
- Swedish
Meaning & Origin of Calle
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Calle is a Scandinavian, mostly Swedish, masculine given name, nickname and surname that is a diminutive form of Carl and Karl and an alternate form of Kalle. Calle is also a surname. Notable people referred to by this name include the following:
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Swedish
The Story of Calle
Calle first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1978, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1998: 12 births, good for #7,532 nationwide. About 40% of every Calle on record arrived during the 1990s, its defining decade. Calle last appeared in the published SSA data in 2012, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 218 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Calle
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Names that sound like Calle
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About the name Calle
Calle is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1978 and has accumulated 218 births in the dataset. Calle's peak popularity came in 1998 when it ranked #7,532. Use the chart and map above to compare Calle's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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