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Not a fan. It’s just never been a favorite for some unknown reason.

I like it a lot. I might use it for a son if I have one in the future.

I think it’s ok. It’s not overly common where I live. I don’t like the alternative spellings though - I know a Kaylub and a Kalup!

Nice

It starts out pleasant enough (l like Kalev), but I think leb is a really ugly sound. Maybe I am reminded of schleb, idk.

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I only know one Caleb; he's an okay guy...a very, very mellow anitsocial engineer...but I don't like his name.
He's got a brother called Jared, which seems like a better sounding name to me.

This message was edited 4/15/2020, 3:23 PM

Meh, not bad. A bit to common, but I prefer it to Jacob.

Have you read Catch-22? There's a guy with the rank of major whose ln is Major and whose mother wanted to name him Caleb. His father sneakily named him Major instead, went home and said "I have named the boy Caleb, in accordance with your wishes". So, when Caleb started school he found that he wasn't himself any more, but a total stranger named Major Major. Once in the Army, he rose through the ranks and should have risen even higher, but the senior officers couldn't resist having the US Armed Forces' one and only Major Major Major, so he reached his glass ceiling.

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When I first read it, and what a wonderful book it is, I found it very amusing that the father preferred a repeated ln to the fn Caleb. I respected him for avoiding Caleb, but not for duplicating his surname!

I actually really love it and it's weirdly popular at my school. At one stage I think we had 10 Calebs aged from 15-18. I literally only know one other Caleb outside of school.

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I think its strong, but also soft and sweet and most of the boys I know named Caleb have been lovely.

It’s a fine, solid name. It’s been in my Top 10 before.

It's pretty common around here. I have a nephew named Caleb Michael. it's one of those names that's odd to call a child now but I think it will suit them as an adult.

I like it but not enough to use. It seems like a very normal sort of name, but I like that ends in "b." Other than Jacob and Caleb I don't know of to many names with that ending. I get tired of seeing a lot of names with the same endings.

I don't like it. A friend in high school said it reminded her of the nasty film you sometimes get on top of spoiled milk, and I've always thought it an apt description.

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I know a boatload of little ones though, disproportionate in comparison to where it falls on popularity charts, so obviously I'm missing something.

I'm not going to dress this up. I absolutely despise this name. It is so ick. Trendy. Cutesy. Wimpy.

I like it, but I don’t love it.

I'm used to it, I guess - it's like Noah's older brother? It seems out of style to me... a kid next door was named it in the 80s and it seemed like I saw it everywhere through the 90s, it became trendified with respellings like Kaylub etc ... Kayla is Caleb for girls, and it's as if they are the same name, like George and Georgia.
Besides that, I have always thought the B (or even V) ending is really ugly. It's even more so than -iah.
I think nn's Cale and Cal are both preferable to Caleb.

Low. Not one of the more user-friendly biblical names: it's impossible for me to overlook its roots, whereas for names like James and David, it's easy. It's short enough not to need a nn, at least if you like the full form, but if you try to shorten it, you just get Kay, or I suppose Cay, which isn't a recommendation for a male name.

Kind of like it, kind of don't. It's fine until you get to the final B. That's where I lose some love for it. I love the nickname Cal, but I don't find it springs naturally from Caleb, because the first syllable of Caleb does not sound identical to Cal. I used to think that I'd name a son Calvin, which I love, to call him Cal, rather than Caleb. That was until people here pointed out that Calvin is reminiscent of John Calvin, the leader of the Protestant Reformation. So I'd have to rethink that. For my fantasy life in which I'm still young enough to have children and want more than two, lol.

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Sorry, I digressed quite a bit but I'm not erasing it!