Kalob
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- KAY-lub
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #10,690 for boys
Kalob is a boys' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “dog, or wholehearted”. In 2025 it ranked 10,690th for boys in the US (6 babies).
What does Kalob mean?
Hebrew: 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.
Is Kalob a girl's or a boy's name?
Kalob is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kalob in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #10,690among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 280,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 6 boys in the US were named Kalob, making it the 10,690th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,599th. Its busiest year was 2000, with 123 boys. It first appears in the records in 1977.
Half of all the boys named Kalob in the US since 1880 were born between 1997 and 2007, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 6,450 boys in the US were given Kalob or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #46, up from #10,690 for this spelling alone.
Kalob in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #10,690 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 7 | #9,757 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,141 |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,599 |
| 2019 | 5 | #12,138 |
| 2018 | 7 | #9,664 |
| 2017 | 7 | #9,691 |
| 2016 | 18 | #5,120 |
| 2015 | 13 | #6,320 |
| 2014 | 21 | #4,534 |
| 2013 | 36 | #3,058 |
| 2012 | 44 | #2,715 |
| 2011 | 45 | #2,662 |
| 2010 | 42 | #2,825 |
| 2009 | 62 | #2,167 |
| 2008 | 63 | #2,139 |
| 2007 | 65 | #2,094 |
| 2006 | 61 | #2,125 |
| 2005 | 80 | #1,671 |
| 2004 | 83 | #1,579 |
| 2003 | 87 | #1,489 |
| 2002 | 93 | #1,403 |
| 2001 | 101 | #1,294 |
| 2000 | 123 | #1,126 |
| 1999 | 65 | #1,639 |
| 1998 | 57 | #1,765 |
| 1997 | 67 | #1,532 |
| 1996 | 58 | #1,652 |
| 1995 | 57 | #1,598 |
| 1994 | 44 | #1,889 |
| 1993 | 52 | #1,675 |
| 1992 | 35 | #2,169 |
| 1991 | 38 | #1,977 |
| 1990 | 28 | #2,427 |
| 1989 | 28 | #2,353 |
| 1988 | 21 | #2,677 |
| 1987 | 8 | #4,962 |
| 1986 | 6 | #5,920 |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,557 |
| 1983 | 7 | #4,904 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,232 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,466 |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 5 | #5,843 |
Names like Kalob
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kai Keanu Kainoa Koa Jacob Keoni Kaleo Jakob Makai Kane Kobe Noah
Other spellings of Kalob
Names related to Kalob
More Hebrew names
Isabella Elijah James Jack Mia Ava Jude Ezra Benjamin Isaac Ethan Daniel Samuel Elias Mateo Elsie
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, “Kalob: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kalob, updated 20 October 2026.