How Many People Are Named Caleb?
people named Caleb are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 1,077 people in the US has this name
Based on 325,003 babies named Caleb in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
⭐ Uncommon
Peak Year
11,684 births
Trend
Declining (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Most likely related to Hebrew כֶּלֶב (kelev) meaning "dog". An alternate theory connects it to Hebrew כָּל (kal) "whole, all of" and לֵב (lev) "heart". In the Old Testament this is the name of one of the twelve spies sent by Moses into Canaan. Of the Israelites who left Egypt with Moses, Caleb and Joshua were the only ones who lived to see the Promised Land.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Caleb in English. Counting Caleb and these spellings together, about 402,558 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Caleb (99.8%) were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Caleb alive today is about 20 years old, and 82% are under 30. Half of them were between 11 and 27 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Caleb first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 2002, to 11,684 babies. In 2025, 5,217 babies got the name. Over the last ten years, the number each year has been falling.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Caleb never made the top 10 boys' names. Its best rank was #31, in 2009, and it was in the top 100 for 37 years, 1989 to 2025. In 2025 it ranked #58.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #58 |
| Best rank | #31 (2009) |
| Years in the top 100 | 37 (1989 to 2025) |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #35 in the 2000s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Caleb alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Caleb were born in Texas than in any other state: about 30,293 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Caleb was given 2 times as often in Vermont, 1.8 times in Maine and 1.7 times in Montana.
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