Kaleb is a name of Hebrew origin. It is derived from the Hebrew name ‘Qe’laḇ’, which means ‘dog’ or ‘servant.’ It is considered as a name with a strong, masculine energy and a sense of service and devotion.
Kaleb is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Kaleb 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, Kaleb ranks 176. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 12 were named Kaleb. In the entire USA, approximately 81,690 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Kaleb. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
Kaleb is a name of Hebrew origin. It is derived from the Hebrew name ‘Qe’laḇ’, which means ‘dog’ or ‘servant.’ It is considered as a name with a strong, masculine energy and a sense of service and devotion.
Kaleb is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Kaleb cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #106 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2009. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Kaleb, 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, Kaleb 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 Kaleb was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
1,332 babies were named Kaleb in 2022 - that's 1 in 121,191 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Kaleb ranked 251 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
The name Kaleb may not be in the top rankings of the most popular boys’ names, but it is one of the few male given names, along with only 385 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Kaleb is apparently especially popular in Nevada. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular men’s names here either, one in 920 men in Nevada is called Kaleb. In total, that’s 615 people who feel addressed when the name Kaleb is shouted loudly across Nevada and who ensure that their name makes it to #215 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common male names in this nice state. If you asked all people in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Kaleb as the answer a total of 81,690 times. This places Kaleb at #319 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular male names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living people across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Kaleb as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
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 five letters, the name Kaleb is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five 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.
If your name is Kaleb 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Kaleb, you can simply say:
Koala
Apple
Lion
Elephant
Butterfly
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Kaleb
Kaleb
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
K
A
L
E
B
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
A
L
E
B
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. Kaleb sounds like this:
