Alcala

surname · Latin script

Meaning: ous fortified villages named during the Moorish occupation of Spain with the Arabic def

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/alkala/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Alcala is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
  • DODominican Republic≈1 in 4.3K
  • ESSpain1 in 4.4K

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.

Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)

≈23,000 people, est.

Sources
335 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Venezuela, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

ous fortified villages named during the Moorish occupation of Spain with the Arabic def. art. al + qala fortress, castle.

Sources 1

  • A dictionary of surnames

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Alcala 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.

Where Alcala is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VE Venezuela#221≈23,000 est.≈1 in 1.2K—Alcala76
US United States—17,7581 in 19K18KAlcala335
PH Philippines#357≈17,000 est.≈1 in 6.5K—Alcala74
ES Spain#37611,2661 in 4.4K11KAlcala148
CO Colombia#957≈3,500 est.≈1 in 14K1Alcala70
DO Dominican Republic#296≈2,400 est.≈1 in 4.3K—Alcala22
TT Trinidad & Tobago#469≈440 est.≈1 in 2.8K—Alcala5

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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Alcala is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Alcalà, Alcalá

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Alcaĺa, Alcalà, Álcala, Alcalã, Alcalá

  • Lao surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Ắlcala, Älçälä, Álcala, Alcalà, Alcalá

  • Russian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Russia, Peru

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Алькала, Alcalá, Alcála, Alcalà

  • Sinhala surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Peru

    Also written Alcalá

49 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Alfredo Alcala, b. 1925Larry Alcala, b. 1926Rodney Alcala, b. 1943John Alcala, b. 1959Elsa Alcala, b. 1964Wincat Alcala, b. 1967Yefry Ramírez, b. 1993Malvinne Ann Venice Alcala, b. 1995Mark Shelley Alcala, b. 1999

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 29 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Alcala
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201018K#2,029
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202017K#2,058
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200013K#2,562
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—11K#496
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—11K#496
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—1#115
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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

Where does the name Alcala come from?
ous fortified villages named during the Moorish occupation of Spain with the Arabic def. art. al + qala fortress, castle. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
How do you pronounce Alcala?
A machine transcription gives /alkala/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What does the name Alcala mean?
Recorded meaning: ous fortified villages named during the Moorish occupation of Spain with the Arabic def.
In which country does Alcala have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Alcala in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alcala.
How common is the name Alcala?
In the United States, the national register counted 17,758 people named Alcala in 2010, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
How common is Alcala compared with other names?
In Venezuela, Alcala is the 221st most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Alcala” — the 221st most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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