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 (כל, Kaf + Lamed) = "all" or "whole"; Lev (לב, Lamed + Bet) means "heart". Therefore, Caleb (or Calev as pronounced in Hebrew) 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".[1]

The early Medieval King Kaleb of Axum was the most well-known monarch of this kingdom (in modern Ethiopia and Eritrea). 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 (son of Hezron), one of the three sons of Hezron, mentioned in the Book of Chronicles

Actors

Athletes

Politicians
  • Caleb Rice (1792–1873), American politician and businessman
  • Caleb Walton West (1844-1909), American politician and Governor of Utah Territory
  • Caleb C. Harris (1836-1904), American farmer, physician, and politician
  • Caleb Powell (1793-1881), Irish Repeal Association and Whig politician
  • Caleb J. Anderson (1910–1996), Swedish Social Democrat
  • Caleb J. McNulty (1816-1846), American lawyer, newspaper editor and politician
  • Caleb Jenner (1830-1890), English-born politician in colonial Victoria (Australia), member of the Victorian Legislative Council
  • Caleb P. Bennett (1758-1836), American soldier and politician
  • Caleb Hopkins (Upper Canada), (1786-1880), Canadian farmer and politician
  • Caleb Stetson (1801-1885), American businessman and politician from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
  • Caleb Stark (1759-1838), American state senator
  • Caleb Newbold Taylor (1813-1887) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
  • Caleb Ayer (1813-1883), American politician
  • Caleb Hanna (born 1999), American politician as a Republican member of the West Virginia House of Delegates
  • Caleb Atwater (1778-1867), American politician, historian, and early archaeologist
  • Caleb Powers (1869–1932), United States Representative from Kentucky and Secretary of State of Kentucky
  • Caleb Cushing (1800–1879), American statesman and diplomat, Congressman from Massachusetts and Attorney General
  • Caleb Banks (1659–1696), English politician, member of the House of Commons
  • Caleb Jones (politician) (born 1980), American politician
  • Caleb Wright (1810-1898), English politician
  • Caleb Strong (1745–1819), lawyer and politician, sixth and tenth Governor of Massachusetts
  • Caleb Frostman (born 1984), American politician
  • Caleb R. Layton (1851-1830), American politician
  • Caleb Blood Smith (1808-1864),,United States Representative from Indiana
  • Caleb Rowden, American politician
  • Caleb Rodney (1767-1840), American merchant and politician
  • Caleb Lomax (1695–1730), British landowner and politician
  • Caleb Ellis (1767-1816), American politician and lawyer
  • Caleb Claiborne Herbert (1814-1867), Confederate politician

Other
  • Caleb Jeacocke (1706–1786), English baker and businessman
  • Caleb Angas (1782-1860), English agriculturist
  • Caleb V. Haynes (1895-1966),?United States Air Force (USAF) major general
  • Caleb Crain, American writer
  • Caleb Garling, American writer
  • Caleb Silver, American journalist
  • Caleb Schaber (1973-2009), American artist and journalist
  • Caleb Carr (born 1955), American military historian and author
  • Caleb Williams Saleeby (1878-1940), English physician, writer, and journalist
  • Caleb Carr (born 1955), American author
  • Caleb Hillier Parry (1755-1822), Anglo-Welsh physician
  • Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck (died 1665 or 1666), first Native American graduate of Harvard University
  • Caleb Deschanel (born 1944), Franco-American cinematographer
  • Caleb Finch, professor studying aging in human beings
  • Caleb Followill (born 1982), lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Kings of Leon
  • Caleb Lewis (born 1978), Australian playwright
  • Caleb Pusey, (c. 1650–1727), friend and business partner of William Penn, provincial supreme court justice
  • Calev Myers (21st century), American-Israeli lawyer
  • Caleb Bradham (1867–1934), 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 (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), a villain in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series
  • Caleb Nichol, in The O.C. television series
  • Caleb (computer game character), protagonist of the computer game Blood and its sequel, Blood II: The Chosen
  • Caleb (W.I.T.C.H.), 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 Mission: 2110
  • 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.
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