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Caleb
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Usage
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Swedish
Norwegian
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Origin and Meaning
Latinised form of Χαλεβ (Chaleb), a Greek form of the Hebrew name כָּלֵב (Kalev) = 'dog, barker' [1] [2]
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| Dog Image by Pamela Carls,[3] License: Creative Commons, CC-BY-SA |
Related Names
| Caleb | ♂ |   |
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| Kaleb | ♂ |  |
 
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Grammar
| - Danish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Caleb |
| Genitive: | Calebs |
| - Finnish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Caleb |
| Genitive: | Calebin |
| Partitive: | Calebia |
| - Norwegian |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Caleb |
| Genitive: | Calebs |
| - Swedish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Caleb |
| Genitive: | Calebs |
Further Information
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 16 people were named Caleb (percentage of first or only given name: 31 %) [4]
Statistics
Name Count per Country (What's this?)
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| Country | Commonness
Commonness | Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
  | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | |
| Sweden[5] |
|
102 | 165 | 0 | 0 | 102 | 165 |
| Denmark[6] |
|
95 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
95 | n.a. |
| Norway[7] |
|
77 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
77 | n.a. |
| Finland[8] |
 |
n.a. |
97 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
97 |
| Iceland[9] |
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3 | 5 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
 Greenland[10] |
  |
0 | 0 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| #: count of main first name only | |||||||
| &: count of both main and additional first names | |||||||
| Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country. |
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No recent statistics trend found in databases for Caleb.
References
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Wikimedia Commons: Image by Pamela Carls, source & license
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
