Cale Family History
- Cale Name Meaning
- 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. Southern Italian (Calè): variant of Calia. Dutch: variant spelling of Kale. Americanized spelling of German Kehl.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 226,570 Historical Documents with Cale on Ancestry
- 68,918 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 86,947 Census and Voter Lists
- 7,137 Military Records
- 5,416 Immigration Records
- 58,152 Member Trees
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Number of Cale families
 149 - 295  50 - 148 |
 1 - 49  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cale families
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5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cale census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Cale census records
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