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Kaare

Boys' name

Curly-haired; curly, curved, through Kåre

Kaare has been given to 28 babies in the U.S. since 1966. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1978, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Kaare, 1980

1 in 492,000

Kaare over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kaare: meaning, origin, and history

Curly-haired; curly, curved, through Kåre

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kaare means

Kaare belongs to the name family reached through Kaare → Kåre. Its meaning is “curly-haired; curly, curved”.

Origin, language, and formation

Kaare is used in Norwegian Bokmål.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kåre.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Norwegian Bokmål, Kaare is pronounced /ˈkoː.rə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 28 boys were recorded with the name Kaare between 1966 and 1980. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1978; its best national rank was #3,726 in 1978.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Kaare?

Kaare had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1980, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1980
1 in 492,000
7 of 3,444,198 births
Among boys only
1 in 255,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1980
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
341,049 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kaare sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1980 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 341,049 children born in 1980 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kaare. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kaares were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kaare was born before 1978 — so the typical Kaare is around 47 today.

Median birth year
1978
About 47 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
39.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
28
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 39.3% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Kaare rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1978 (10)
Years since peak
47
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#3,726
1978

Spellings of Kaare

Kaare is not the most common spelling — Karl is, with 40.6% against Kaare's 0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Kaare around the world

Where Kaare ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Norway
    1880–1983
    #569
    in 1983

Popularity data from Statistics Norway. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Kaare by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,726
1978
Peak year
1978
10 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
1980
All-time count
28
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kaare

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Kaare

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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