Caleb Family History
Caleb Name Meaning
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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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Caleb
Name Distribution of Caleb Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Caleb families
 8 - 14  3 - 7 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Caleb Family Origin
Caleb Emigration Information (US)
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Caleb Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Caleb
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| James T. Caleb |  | kburby1 | 1 |
| James Caleb of Cecil County, Maryland | | kburby1 | 1 |
| James and Hannah Caleb in Maryland | | 0 | |
| George Caleb | | geoleo19 | 0 |
| ancestry | | 7 | |
| Caleb- | | sissie2s | 0 |
| August Caleb | | 0 | |
| LAWERANCE CALEB | | 0 | |
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