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Caleb

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Usage

Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish

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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]

Dog
Dog
Image by Pamela Carls,[3]
License: Creative Commons, CC-BY-SA

Related Names

Caleb ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Kaleb ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Faroese Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Caleb
Genitive: Calebs
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Caleb
Genitive: Calebin
Partitive: Calebia
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Caleb
Genitive: Calebs
Sweden - Swedish
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 Sweden[5]
111 179 0 0 111 179
Denmark Denmark[6]
100
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 100
n.a.
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
 113 0 0
n.a.
 113
Iceland Iceland[8]
3 5
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[9]
83
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 83
n.a.
Greenland 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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Caleb.


References

  1. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. ↑ Wikimedia Commons: Image by Pamela Carls, source & license
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. ↑ Digi- ja Väestötietovirasto, Digital and Population Data Services Agency, https://nimipalvelu.dvv.fi
  8. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  9. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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