Given name
Calebe
“dog”
Calebe is a masculine given name, possibly from Hebrew and perhaps meaning “dog.” It is used in Portuguese.
Original Hebrewכלב
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1998. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Calebe through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 22
- 22 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1998
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #12,348 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,348 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Calebe’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Calebe has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Caleb. In Portuguese usage, Calebe has a conventional equivalent in the German form Kaleb. In Portuguese usage, Calebe was borrowed from the Hebrew form כלב.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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