Baby name
RISING
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 Kaleb
/KAY · leb/
Meaning
“faithful”
Variant spelling of Caleb, Hebrew meaning 'faithful' or possibly 'dog' in the sense of devoted loyalty; the K spelling became popular in the American evangelical naming tradition.
Nicknames
kale
Vibe
strong
How it ages.
Biblical and solid; the K spelling may date it to the 2000s but the name itself endures.
The cultural moment.
Rising in the United States and Brazil from the 1990s through 2010s.