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Roughly 317,000 Calebs are alive in the US today, we estimate. About 1 in 1,100 Americans.
Made from recorded births by year and sex, multiplied by survival to today's age (SSA life table). It can't see immigration, and it's an estimate, not a census: how the living estimate is made.
Dickens opened the toymaker’s story in The Cricket on the Hearth with a Caleb, in 1845:
Caleb Plummer and his Blind Daughter lived all alone by themselves, as the Story Books say.Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)public domain
A name that old still had its best year in living memory. The records show just 19 Calebs in 1945, then a long return that crested at 11,684 in 2002.
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