Calob
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- KAY-lub
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #12,003 for boys
Calob is a boys' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “dog, or wholehearted”. In 2025 it ranked 12,003rd for boys in the US (5 babies).
What does Calob mean?
Hebrew: spelling of Kalob, itself a variant spelling of Caleb
“dog, or wholehearted”
A variant spelling of Caleb, one of the twelve spies Moses sent into Canaan in the Hebrew Bible.
Meaning borrowed from Kalob.
Is Calob a girl's or a boy's name?
Calob is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Calob in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 12,003rd among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 340,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 5 boys in the US were named Calob, making it the 12,003rd most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 2001, with 57 boys. It first appears in the records in 1981.
Half of all the boys named Calob in the US since 1880 were born between 1997 and 2006, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 6,450 boys in the US were given Calob or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #46, up from #12,003 for this spelling alone.
Calob in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,003 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,141 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,080 |
| 2014 | 6 | #10,711 |
| 2013 | 6 | #10,722 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,714 |
| 2011 | 26 | #3,883 |
| 2010 | 18 | #5,044 |
| 2009 | 24 | #4,158 |
| 2008 | 29 | #3,643 |
| 2007 | 28 | #3,685 |
| 2006 | 24 | #3,998 |
| 2005 | 36 | #2,898 |
| 2004 | 32 | #3,070 |
| 2003 | 49 | #2,202 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,088 |
| 2001 | 57 | #1,908 |
| 2000 | 42 | #2,294 |
| 1999 | 37 | #2,395 |
| 1998 | 31 | #2,648 |
| 1997 | 24 | #3,059 |
| 1996 | 27 | #2,742 |
| 1995 | 23 | #3,015 |
| 1994 | 21 | #3,209 |
| 1993 | 23 | #2,937 |
| 1992 | 18 | #3,452 |
| 1991 | 22 | #2,909 |
| 1990 | 14 | #3,965 |
| 1989 | 11 | #4,521 |
| 1988 | 7 | #5,745 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,233 |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 7 | #4,959 |
Names like Calob
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Jacob, Connor, Noah, Cohen, Cooper, Isaac, Colton, Ethan, Jonah, Josue, Brayden, Jordan
Other spellings of Calob
Names related to Calob
More Hebrew names
Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Mia, Ava, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Daniel, Samuel, Elias, Mateo, Elsie, Levi, Eliana
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Calob: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/calob, updated 20 October 2026.