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The first name 
Kole

Kole is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.

Kole is a common name for boys!

The name Kole isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Kole ranks 745. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 2 were named Kole. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Kole.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Kole

What does the name 
Kole mean?

Kole is a modern spelling of Cole, which was originally a surname that goes back to the given name Nicholas. This name developed from the Greek Nikolaos for ‘victory of the people’.

Kole was quite popular around... 2010, a few years after Cole had reached its peak in popularity.

Kole -
keeping with the times

Kole is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Kole cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #560 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2010. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Kole, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Kole seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Kole was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Kole in 2022 – for some parents the most beautiful name in the world

221 babies were named Kole in 2022 - that's 1 in 750,819 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Kole ranked 940 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.

Kole has 4 letters 
and begins with a K

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 7.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J, A and D are more common for boys' names.

With four letters, the name Kole is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that if 7.9% of all boys' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the boys’ names that begin with a K, Kenneth is the most common.

Other names with 
K, o, l and e

If you take all the letters in the name Kole – K, o, l and e – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Kloe or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Kole

If your name is Kole and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Kole

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Kole, you can simply say:

Koala

Orange

Lion

Elephant

This is how the name Kole is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Kole in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Kole

Kole

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Kole

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Kole is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

K
O
L
E

Have you ever waved the name Kole

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

K
O
L
E

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Kole sounds like this: