Baby name

RISING BOY · HEBREW-ENGLISH
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Kaleb

/KAY · leb/


“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.

kale

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.