Given name & surname
Kaare
“curly-haired”
Kaare has a related form in Kåre. One Old Norse interpretation is “curly-haired.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Kaare has a related form in Kåre. One Old Norse interpretation is “curly-haired.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Kaare has a related form in Kåre. An origin associated with Kåre is Old Norse.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1966. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kaare through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 28
- 28 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1978
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 1980. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 1978. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 165 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kaare’s family of names
In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Kaare has a related form in Kåre. In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Kaare has a related form in Kåre.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Kaare
- Kaare KlintDanish architect and furniture designer (1888-1954)
- Kaare Walbergformer Norwegian ski jumper, Olympic medalist (1912–1988)
- Kaare DybvadDanish politician (1984-)
- Kaare AndrewsCanadian comic book artist and writerborn 1967
- Kaare FostervollNorwegian politician (1891-1981)
- Kaare Aksnesprofessor1938–2026
- Kaare MelandNorwegian politician (1915-2002)
- Kaare StøylenNorwegian bishop1909–1989
- Kaare ØrnungNorwegian pianist and music teacher1931–2013
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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