Behind the Name: Comments for the name Kalle

Comments for KALLE:

I know a girl named 'Kalle'. It's pronounced like 'Callie'.

-- PeacieFreak13 6/8/2005

Very common pet name in Sweden. Donald Duck is called Kalle Anka.

-- Anonymous User 12/16/2005

Kalle Blomkvist is the name of the boy detective in several children's books by Astrid Lindgren (of Pippi Longstocking fame). In the English translations he is called Bill Bergson.

-- Kosta 6/5/2008

Pronounced KAHL-leh.

-- Yippal 7/30/2009

One famous Kalle in North America is Estonia-born Kalle Lasn, co-founder of Adbusters Media Foundation.

-- embryomystic 3/14/2011

As the previous comment says, it's pronounced KAHL-leh. My little boy is named Kalle and many non-Scandinavian people mispronounce it "Kallie". I still love this name though.

-- Anonymous User 4/22/2011

Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes is called Kalle in Sweden (Hobbes is Hobbe).

-- Caprice 10/9/2012

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