Calimán
surname · Latin script
Calimán is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Greek Καλλιμάνης (Kallimánis).
- BRBrazil1 in 77K(measured from records)
- RORomania≈1 in 25K
- ITItaly≈1 in 233K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 87 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
2,741 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Romania, 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 Caliman in BR Brazil, US United States, VE Venezuela and 3 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)Borrowed from Greek Καλλιμάνης (Kallimánis).
Cited for this meaning 2
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world
(measured from records)Calimán 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 2,741 | 1 in 77K | 2.7K | Caliman | 87 |
| RO Romania | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Caliman | 7 |
| IT Italy | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 233K | listed | Caliman | 7 |
| US United States | 194 | 1 in 1.7M | 265 | Caliman | 35 |
| CO Colombia | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 373K | 1 | Caliman | 26 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 401K | — | Caliman | 14 |
2,741 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Calimán mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Greek Καλλιμάνης (Kallimánis). Recorded by Wiktionary and Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- In which country does Calimán have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Calimán, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled caliman.
- How common is the name Calimán?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,741 people named Calimán, about 1 in 77 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/calim%C3%A1nThe 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, “Calimán”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.