How would you pronounce...

[Blazinghotmonkey]

Caleb?

I'm picturing a Mormon.

I like most names but find Caleb really clunky and it looks like it's written backwards. It might be better in Hebrew!

Why is it Cay not Cah? As in calendar or Calum?

Kay-leb

Kay-leb. Not heard it said any other way and know a couple. I like it. biblespeak.org/caleb-pronunciation/

I'm picturing a thick member of the Dingle family. Sorry!

Why is it Cay not Cah? As in calendar or Calum?
Because English is not a phonetic language. There is not always a direct relationship between the letters and the sounds they make.

I've met a small one. Cute name if very Biblical.

Definitely emphasis on first syll. which is definitely 'kay'. Then a nondescript short vowel noise in the second part. More like 'lub' to me I think. Certainly not an enunciated 'eb' sound.

Kay leb emphasis on first syllable. i've never heard it pronounced lib or lub.

I know several and none of them stress the second syllable. The one you know got it wrong.
The second syllable is pronounced as a schwa, a neutral vowel sound.

The ones I know have siblings named Taylor, Tyler, Aaron, Chase, Ethan, Hayley, and Trinity. All are American. None of the families in the least churchgoing - it would have surprised them to learn the name is biblical.

MaisyPops - NAY-OH-me is the only way I have ever heard Naomi pronounced. I know a few, both Irish and American.

I say it Kay-lub. Too much emphasis on the 'leb' sounds a bit odd to me, and I would never say 'lib'.
I absolutely love the name, though. Reminds me of the lovely looking guy in Pretty Little Liars

Car-leb

Kay - Leb
I know one though and he sometimes gets Kay - lib

Oh and I love it. I love biblical names but am bored of the overused ones now.

Nice name but the stress is on the first syllable, not the second.
KAY-leb (or lib).

mathanxiety
I've hears lots of Nay-oh-mi said with the same stresses as you would Nie-oh-me.

This was weird like NAYOH-me. The first 2 were heavilly stressed and almost slide into thr space of 1 syllable and the 'me' was almost non existent.

Yes, that is how the vast majority of people I have ever heard saying the name pronounce it, including the 'NAYOH-mes' that I know. The '-me' part is very unstressed.

KAY-leb
I like it - a good biblical name, the couple I know are churchgoers.

Kay Leb.

I know a couple- both from very Christian families.

Agree on Kay - Leb, but surely whether the second syllable is leb, lib or lub sounding depends on the accent of the person speaking?

Kay-Leb. It's a lovely name op. We'd chosen that if our baby was a boy. But she's a girl!

Hey my 10 year old nephew is called Caleb he gets called Kay-leb. Sometimes when I say his name it's somewhere between Kay-leb and Kay-lib. He also gets Cali as a nickname (Which is kinda annoying as my and my DP likes Kali for a girl but can't use it!)

I adore his name and have since before he was born. It really suits him

Kay Leb

Kay-leb.

I think of Sister Wives. There's a Caleb in that.