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The cale Surname

cale Name Meaning and History

  1. French (Calé) and English: from Old French calé, adjectival derivative of cale ‘close-fitting cap’, hence a nickname for someone who wore such a cap.
  2. Southern Italian (Calè): variant of Calia.
  3. Dutch: variant spelling of Kale.
  4. Americanized spelling of German Kehl.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of cale Families in the US in 1920
Number of cale families
 119-235
 40-118		 1-39
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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