caleb Family History Facts 1920

caleb Name Meaning and History

Reduced and altered form of Scottish and Irish McKillip, a Gaelic patronymic from Philip. The form of the name, originally Killip, has been assimilated to that of the Biblical personal name Caleb.
English and Welsh: from the Biblical Hebrew personal name Caleb, the name of one of the only two men who set out with Moses from Egypt to live long enough to enter the promised land (Numbers 26:65). This name, which is derived from a Hebrew word meaning ‘dog’, was popular among the Puritans in the 17th century and was brought by them as a personal name to America.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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Thread	Author	Replies
James T. Caleb	kburby1	1
James Caleb of Cecil County, Maryland	kburby1	1
James and Hannah Caleb in Maryland	Lisa Morris Reilly	0
George Caleb	geoleo19	0
ancestry	FREDRICK D. CALEB, JR	7
Caleb-	sissie2s	0
August Caleb	Amy Willis	0
LAWERANCE CALEB	vickilynn	0
ancestry	FREDRICK D. CALEB, JR	0