Calderon

Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)

Locally spelled Calderón in GT Guatemala.

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)

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

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

Calderon is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate name6 spellings in the group

  Also written Caldeŕon, Caldéron, Calderòn, Calderón, Calderön

• Bulgarian surname21 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Bulgaria, United States, Spain, Peru

  Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian

  Also written Kalderon, Calderón, Калдерон, Calderòn, Cäldërön

59 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)

Calderon is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, nymic occupational name for a tinker or maker of large cooking vessels, from Oh' cauderon cauldron (L caldarium hot bath). Eng.: Cauldron, Cowdron, Codron. Jewish: Kalderon. It.: Calendreau. Vars.: Caulder, Cau(l)dor, Caldor. Vars.:

  as a name·The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

• In Italian, redução dialetal set. de Calderone

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

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)

• Philip Hermogenes Calderonb. 1833FRBritish artist (1833-1898)
• George Calderonb. 1868GBEnglish writer
• Samuel Calderonb. 1950ILIsraeli film director and actor
• Charles Calderonb. 1950USAmerican politician
• Tom Calderonb. 1954USAmerican politician
• Ronald Calderonb. 1957USState Senator, American banker, and businessman.
• Ruth Calderonb. 1961ILIsraeli politician
• J. P. Calderonb. 1975USAmerican volleyball player, model and reality television participant
• Joel Calderonb. 1980PHcyclist
• Ian Calderonb. 1985USAmerican politician

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)

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Calderon mean, and where does it come from?

from AFr caud(e)ron 'cauldron'; first attested Stephen Caldron 1289 FrY Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.

How do you pronounce Calderon?

A machine transcription gives /kaldɛron/ (IPA) for Spanish.

In which country does Calderon have the most bearers?

Mondonomo estimates about 82 thousand people named Calderon in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled calderon.

Where is Calderon most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Calderon is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 97 people — even though Peru holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Calderon?

In the United States, the national register counted 77,085 people named Calderon in 2010, about 1 in 4.3 thousand residents.

How common is Calderon compared with other names?

In Peru, Calderon is the 49th most common surname of 173,371 surnames recorded there.