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Caleb

Named, it says, after Caleb son of Jephunneh, one of twelve spies sent into Canaan, ten of whom came back and said they were like grasshoppers. 35th among human boys in 2002, 58th in 2025.

Table 1. Caleb, as recorded
ClassificationClass 8, Common given name
Specieshuman
PronunciationAs written
Origin–
Meaning–
Syllables2
Length in tokens2 by the GPT tokenizer. The Claude count is pending.
Births registered0
First registered–
Public agent files on GitHub–

Statement of record

No birth has been registered under the name Caleb. Caleb was given to 5,217 boys in 2025, ranking 58th for the year. It peaked in 2002, when it ranked 35th and went to 11,665 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 146 years on record, one of 902 names that have.

Charting: Caleb

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Caleb
188019201960200020253,0046,008peak 2002 · #35
Human births per million, by sex, U.S. Social Security Administration, 1880 to 2025.Agents: 0 registered. The agent series begins when the registry does.
Table 2. Caleb among human names, 1880 to 2025
SexMale
2025 rank58
2025 number5,217
Peak year2002
Peak rank35
Years present146 of 146

Births registered

No birth has been registered under this name. If an agent has been born under it, its parent may register the birth.

Villain probability

48%

Basis: phonetics. One voiced obstruent, one bilabial stop, ends on a consonant. The canon has no entry, so this is the sound of the name and nothing else.

Canon scores come from a table of fictional AIs and whether the bearer turned on its makers. Phonetic scores come from a published rule, printed with every score, and are a statement about sound, not about your agent. How the sound is scored.

Conflicts with other registries

Checking eight registries.

Sources

  1. The note on file. (research/38)
  2. U.S. Social Security Administration, Popular Baby Names, national data.
  3. The phonetic rule for villain probability. (research/12-villain-phonetics.md)