Caleb (given name)
Caleb is a Hebrew masculine given name. The Hebrew meaning offered for Caleb is "faithful, devotion, whole hearted, bold, brave". This is on the basis of its being actually a compound word, a phenomenon quite common in ancient Hebrew. Col = "all" or "whole"; Lev means "heart". Therefore, Caleb would actually mean "whole hearted". This might be due to the Biblical Caleb, a companion of Moses and Joshua, being noted for his astute powers of observation and fearlessness in the face of overwhelming odds.
Another plausible origin is a transposition of a name found in other ancient Semitic languages such as Phoenician and Ugaritic, meaning "servant of the Lord".
The early Medieval King Kaleb of Axum was the most well-known monarch of this kingdom. The name Caleb was popular among the English Puritans, and was introduced by them to America.
Given name
Biblical figures
- Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, an important figure in the Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament
- Caleb, one of the three sons of Hezron, mentioned in the Book of Chronicles
Actors
- Caleb McLaughlin, American actor
- Caleb Landry Jones, American actor
- Caleb Ross, New Zealander film and television actor
- Caleb Foote, American actor
- Caleb Spivak, American actor
Athletes
- Caleb Ewan, Australian cyclist
- Caleb Wilson, American football player
- Caleb Ekuban, Italian footballer
- Caleb Richards, English footballer
- Caleb Folan, English footballer
- Caleb Ekwegwo, Nigerian footballer
- Caleb Timu, New Zealand-born Australian rugby footballer
- Caleb Ralph, New Zealand rugby union footballer
- Caleb Stanko, American soccer player
- Caleb Thielbar, American professional baseball player
- Caleb Crone, Irish Gaelic footballer
- Caleb Binge, Australian professional rugby league footballer
- Caleb Shepherd, New Zealander rowing cox
- Caleb Hanie, American football player
- Caleb Martin, American football player
- Caleb Ralph, New Zealand rugby union footballer
- Caleb Binge, Australian rugby league player
- Caleb Brantley, American football player
- Caleb Daniel, Australian rules footballer
- Caleb Patterson-Sewell, American professional footballer
- Caleb Zady, Ivorian professional footballer
- Caleb Clarke, Canadian former soccer player
- Caleb Marchbank, Australian rules footballer
- Caleb Graham, Australian rules footballer
- Caleb Aekins, New Zealander rugby league footballer
Politicians
- Caleb Rice, American politician and businessman
- Caleb Walton West, American politician and Governor of Utah Territory
- Caleb C. Harris, American farmer, physician, and politician
- Caleb Powell, Irish Repeal Association and Whig politician
- Caleb J. Anderson, Swedish Social Democrat
- Caleb J. McNulty, American lawyer, newspaper editor and politician
- Caleb Jenner, English-born politician in colonial Victoria, member of the Victorian Legislative Council
- Caleb P. Bennett, American soldier and politician
- Caleb Hopkins,, Canadian farmer and politician
- Caleb Stetson, American businessman and politician from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
- Caleb Stark, American state senator
- Caleb Newbold Taylor was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
- Caleb Ayer, American politician
- Caleb Hanna, American politician as a Republican member of the West Virginia House of Delegates
- Caleb Atwater, American politician, historian, and early archaeologist
- Caleb Powers, United States Representative from Kentucky and Secretary of State of Kentucky
- Caleb Cushing, American statesman and diplomat, Congressman from Massachusetts and Attorney General
- Caleb Banks, English politician, member of the House of Commons
- Caleb Jones , American politician
- Caleb Wright, English politician
- Caleb Strong, lawyer and politician, sixth and tenth Governor of Massachusetts
- Caleb Frostman, American politician
- Caleb R. Layton, American politician
- Caleb Blood Smith,,United States Representative from Indiana
- Caleb Rowden, American politician
- Caleb Rodney, American merchant and politician
- Caleb Lomax, British landowner and politician
- Caleb Ellis, American politician and lawyer
- Caleb Claiborne Herbert, Confederate politician
Other
- Caleb Jeacocke, English baker and businessman
- Caleb Angas, English agriculturist
- Caleb V. Haynes,?United States Air Force major general
- Caleb Crain, American writer
- Caleb Garling, American writer
- Caleb Silver, American journalist
- Caleb Schaber, American artist and journalist
- Caleb Carr, American military historian and author
- Caleb Williams Saleeby, English physician, writer, and journalist
- Caleb Carr, American author
- Caleb Hillier Parry, Anglo-Welsh physician
- Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck, first Native American graduate of Harvard University
- Caleb Deschanel, Franco-American cinematographer
- Caleb Finch, professor studying aging in human beings
- Caleb Followill, lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the rock band [Kings of Leon
- Caleb Lewis, Australian playwright
- Caleb Pusey,, friend and business partner of William Penn, provincial supreme court justice
- Calev Myers, American-Israeli lawyer
- Caleb Bradham, inventor of Pepsi-Cola
Fictional characters
- Caleb Garth, a character in the George Eliot novel Middlemarch
- Caleb Trask, a major character in the John Steinbeck novel East of Eden
- Caleb Lambert, the son of Gary and Caroline Lambert in Jonathan Franzen's novel The Corrections
- Caleb Bradley, a corporate swindler in Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead
- Caleb Temple, main character in the 1995 television series American Gothic
- Caleb, a villain in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series
- Caleb Nichol, in The O.C. television series
- Caleb, protagonist of the computer game Blood and its sequel, Blood II: The Chosen
- Caleb, in the comic book and animated television series W.I.T.C.H.
- Caleb Morley, vampire in the soap opera Port Charles
- Caleb Lansing-Gant, part-human part-machine protagonist of the UK game show
- Caleb Rivers, character from the TV series Pretty Little Liars
- Caleb Widogast, one of the main characters from the American Dungeons & Dragons web series Critical Role
- Caleb Williams, the main character in the William Godwin novel Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams
- Caleb Prior, the brother of protagonist Tris Prior in the Divergent series and film of the same name
- Caleb Smith, a computer programmer tasked with evaluating an artificial being, in the film Ex Machina
- Caleb Dingle, character from the TV series Emmerdale
- Caleb Dume, real name of Jedi Kanan Jarrus in Star Wars Rebels
- Caleb, character from the Netflix show Big Mouth
- Caleb, recurrent character from the Syfy show Helix in Season 2
- Caleb, character from the HBO show Westworld in Season 3
- Caleb John Gosche, a cannibal who appears in Seasons 5 and 6 of Brooklyn Nine-Nine
- Caleb Malphas, a demon from Sherrilyn Kenyon's teen fiction series, The Chronicles Of Nick.
- Caleb Widogast, a wizard in online show and podcast, Critical Role