Kalab
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 6 babies a year in the US.
Kalab by the numbers
Kalab was given to 6 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 30 babies in 1999, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Kalab
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Kalab. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Kalab
Names that are said the same way as Kalab, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Calebwhole-hearted, faithful7,093 in the US (2017)
- Kaylebdevotion to God; a modern spelling of Caleb85 in the US (2017)
- Khalebwhole heart; a modern spelling of Caleb51 in the US (2017)
- Kailebwhole heart; a spelling variant of Caleb29 in the US (2017)
- Kallebwhole heart; variant of Caleb7 in the US (2017)
- Cayleb28 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Kalab
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