Caleb
Caleb is ranked 49th among boys in 2024 (5,766 births). Its best rank was 31st, in 2009.
- Rank in 2024
- #49up 2 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 5,7660.34% of boys
- Peak year
- 200211,665 births
- Best rank
- #31in 2009
- Since 1880
- 319,054people given the name
The story in the numbers
319,054 boys have been named Caleb in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2002, with 11,665 births — 0.60% of all boys recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 35 → 49).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2005, and the 2000s alone account for 35%. It has spent 96 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 36 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Caleb | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 182 | |
| 1890s | 89 | |
| 1900s | 106 | |
| 1910s | 317 | |
| 1920s | 416 | |
| 1930s | 316 | |
| 1940s | 312 | |
| 1950s | 417 | |
| 1960s | 518 | |
| 1970s | 4,013 | |
| 1980s | 20,646 | |
| 1990s | 66,297 | |
| 2000s | 110,080 | |
| 2010s | 86,713 | |
| 2020s | 28,632 |
In 2002, its biggest year
Caleb was the 35th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2002 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Matthew and Ethan. See all of 2002.
Names that rose and fell with Caleb
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kiernanpeak 2008
- Ashwinpeak 2001
- Ulisespeak 2006
- Yonatanpeak 2005
- Keatonpeak 2007
- Kamilpeak 2006
- Tallonpeak 2000
- Colepeak 2002
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.