Names like Caleb
Caleb is a two-syllable Hebrew name that ends in -eb. Each list below follows one of those threads on its own, so you can see exactly what the names share.
The same roots
Also Hebrew names, from the tradition Caleb comes from.
Noah Hebrew · "rest," from the Hebrew Noach, the ark-builder who rode out the flood; quiet for most of the 20th century, then the defining boys' name of the 2010s in the US and much of Europe. Gentle in sound, patriarch in weight
Jacob Hebrew · traditionally "holder of the heel" or "supplanter," from the Hebrew Ya'aqov, the patriarch who wrestled the angel and fathered the twelve tribes; a Jewish and Puritan staple that ruled the US boys' charts for over a decade around the 2000s. Jake comes free
Adam Hebrew · man, from the Hebrew word for earth; the first man in the Abrahamic tradition, identical in spelling and pronunciation in Arabic and English, a textbook crossover pick
Ethan Hebrew · "firm, enduring," from Eitan; in the Bible a sage whose wisdom only Solomon surpassed. An early-American favorite that returned in the 1990s and stayed; solid by etymology and by temperament
Names of the same moment
Each of these is at its highest in the 2010s, the same decade as Caleb, on a similar curve.
Canaan Hebrew · biblical promised land; meaning uncertain
Cohen Hebrew · "priest"
Micah Hebrew · who is like God
Jorden Hebrew · variant spelling of Jordan, from the Jordan River, 'to flow down'
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