Calas

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Calas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In French, recorded as second-person singular past historic of caler.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 42K(inferred from the name graph)
  • FIFinland1 in 186K
  • ARArgentina1 in 276K

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.

France (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,600 people, est.

Sources
6 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 42K (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

How Calas is read(measured from records)

Calas is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • French47%

    second-person singular past historic of caler

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • English23%

    Dumplings made with a deep-fried batter of rice, yeast, sugar, eggs, and flour, part of Creole cuisine.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Spanish23%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Calas in Spanish.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Calas 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 Calas is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France≈1,600 est.≈1 in 42K185—1
US United States3491 in 953K379Calas6
AR Argentina1651 in 276K165——
ES Spain1421 in 352K142——
BR Brazil1401 in 1.5M140——
FI Finland301 in 186K30——

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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)

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

  • French surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Argentina, Philippines

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Calás, Calàs, Câläs

  • English surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Çalaş, Calås, Calás

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Calás, Calås

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Italy

    Also written Calás

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, China, Saudi Arabia

    Also written Calás

36 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Calas is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latin, second-person singular present active indicative of calō

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Galician, second-person singular present indicative of calar

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In vo, genitive plural of cal

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

16001700180019002000Jean Calas, b. 1698Auguste Calas, b. 1892Raoul Calas, b. 1899Daniel Calas, b. 1946Georges Calas, b. 1948Béatrice Calas, b. 1954Martine Calas, b. 1957Serge Calas, b. 1962Franck Calas, b. 1973

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 19 sources across 11 countries.

Reference works 2

  • 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 Calas mean?
In French, second-person singular past historic of caler
In which country does Calas have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Calas in France, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Calas?
In the United States, the national register counted 349 people named Calas in 2010, about 1 in 953 thousand residents.

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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, “Calas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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