Alcalá
loc · Latin script
Meaning: the name of a number of cities and towns in Spain
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
/al.kaˈla/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Alcalá is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- MXMexico≈1 in 2.8K
- TTTrinidad & Tobago≈1 in 3Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 335 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈47,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Alcala in MX Mexico, US United States, VE Venezuela and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)the name of a number of cities and towns in Spain
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Alcalá counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #346 | ≈47,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | 819 | Alcala | 181 |
| VE Venezuela | #221 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Alcala | 76 |
| PH Philippines | #357 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Alcala | 74 |
| US United States | — | 17,758 | 1 in 19K | 18K | Alcala | 335 |
| ES Spain | #376 | 11,266 | 1 in 4.4K | 11K | Alcala | 148 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #296 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Alcala | 22 |
| TT Trinidad & Tobago | #469 | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Alcala | 5 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Antonio José de Sucreb. 1795VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan military and politician (1795–1830)
- Susana Marchb. 1915ESnot in their usual nameSpanish writer and poet (1915–1990)
- Raúl Córdobab. 1924MXnot in their usual nameMexican footballer (1924-2017)
- Angel Alcalab. 1929PHFilipino biogogist
- Alfredo Alcaláb. 1940ESSpanish architect
- Santo Alcalab. 1952DODominican Republic baseball player
- Luis Alcaláb. 1959ESSpanish paleontologist
- Clíver Alcaláb. 1961VEVenezuelan major general (born 1961)
- Raúl Alcaláb. 1964MXroad bicycle racer
- Ángela Aguilarb. 2003USnot in their usual nameAmerican-Mexican singer (born 2003)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Alcalá mean, and where does it come from?
- the name of a number of cities and towns in Spain Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Alcalá?
- In Spanish /al.kaˈla/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Alcalá have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 47 thousand people named Alcalá in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alcala.
- How common is the name Alcalá?
- In the United States, the national register counted 17,758 people named Alcalá in 2010, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
- How common is Alcalá compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Alcalá is the 346th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alcal%C3%A1The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Alcalá” — the 346th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.