Caileb
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Caileb has been given to 237 babies in the U.S. since 1996. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2009, with 18 recorded.
Babies named Caileb, 2020
1 in 668,000
Caileb over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Caileb?
Caileb had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2020
- 1 in 668,000
- 5 of 3,342,313 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 345,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2020
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 463,344 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Caileb sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Caileb. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Cailebs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Caileb was born before 2008 — so the typical Caileb is around 17 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 51.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 237
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 51.5% of all recorded uses (122).
Is Caileb rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2009 (18)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.9% average annual change
Spellings of Caileb
Caileb is not the most common spelling — Caleb is, with 66.2% against Caileb's 0.05%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Caileb is used
Across 1910–2025, Caileb was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,652,691 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Caileb has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Caileb around the world
Where Caileb ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2000–2017#3,996in 2017
- Scotland2016–2016#532in 2016
- South Australia1997–2011#784in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Caileb by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Caileb
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Caileb
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.