Kaleb
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Amharic/Tigrinya (Ethiopia): referring to the biblical Cain
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/keɪləb/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kaleb is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 4.9K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 11K
- ECEcuador1 in 21K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 391 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.9K (inferred from the name graph)
68,291 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Amharic/Tigrinya (Ethiopia): referring to the biblical Cain
Sources 1
- African Names
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Kaleb, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kaleb counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 68,291 | 1 in 4.9K | 68K | Kaleb | 391 |
| BR Brazil | 18,957 | 1 in 11K | 19K | — | 1 |
| EC Ecuador | 796 | 1 in 21K | 796 | — | 3 |
| SE Sweden | 246 | 1 in 41K | 246 | Kaleb | 14 |
| CR Costa Rica | 90 | 1 in 57K | 90 | — | — |
68,291 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INEC — civil registry names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kaleb is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A male given name from Hebrew, a less common modern spelling variant of Caleb.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, aus der Bibel übernommener männl.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Perro
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Danish, Caleb (biblical character)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ella Asbehab. 450not in their usual nameking of Aksum from 514 to 542
- Kaleb Canalesb. 1978USAmerican basketball coach
- Kaléb. 1983PEnot in their usual namePeruvian singer (born 1983)
- Kaleb Cowartb. 1992USAmerican baseball player
- Kaleb Tarczewskib. 1993USAmerican basketball player (born 1993)
- Kaleb McGaryb. 1995USAmerican football player
- Kaleb Jacksonb. 1996USAmerican soccer player
- Kaleb Wessonb. 1999USAmerican basketball player (born 1999)
- Isahb. 1999NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian hip hop artist
- Kaleb Michael Jackson Federlineb. 2004USSon of Kevin Federline
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 75 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 68K | #745 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 19K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 19K | #1,102 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 2.6K | #5,050 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 1.1K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 796 | #782 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 256 | #745 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 246 | #4,512 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 239 | #1,102 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 98 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 90 | #2,309 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Kaleb?
- In the etymology graph, Caleb and Chaleb are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Kaleb a male or female name?
- Kaleb is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Kaleb mean, and where does it come from?
- Amharic/Tigrinya (Ethiopia): referring to the biblical Cain Recorded by African Names.
- How do you pronounce Kaleb?
- A machine transcription gives /keɪləb/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kaleb have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 68 thousand people named Kaleb, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kaleb.
- Where is Kaleb most common?
- Kaleb is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kaleb?
- In the United States, the national register counted 68,291 people named Kaleb in 2020, about 1 in 4.9 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kaleb?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kalebThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kaleb”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.