Calles

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Plutarco Eli'as, Mexican politician

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 1.5K(inferred from the name graph)
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 6K
  • HNHonduras≈1 in 9.1K

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)

≈4,700 people, est.

Sources
196 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)

El Salvador, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Plutarco Eli'as, Mexican politician

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Calles 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 Calles is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VE Venezuela#644≈4,700 est.≈1 in 6K—Calles50
SV El Salvador#236≈4,400 est.≈1 in 1.5K—Calles42
US United States—3,0261 in 110K3.1KCalles196
ES Spain—2,0351 in 25K2KCalles108
HN Honduras#392≈1,000 est.≈1 in 9.1K—Calles17
PA Panama#325≈270 est.≈1 in 14K11Calles21

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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. 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)

Calles is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Cållës, Callès

  • French surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Philippines, Spain

    Also written Callès, Callés, Çallęs

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written C-Alles, Callés, Callès

35 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)

Calles 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 Galician, second-person singular present subjunctive of callar

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

  • In Catalan, second-person singular present indicative of callar

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

  • In Latin, nominative/accusative plural of callis

    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)

1850190019502000Plutarco Elías Calles, b. 1877Guillermo Calles, b. 1893Victor Calles, b. 1901José C. Vales, b. 1965Tania Elías Calles, b. 1979Maurice Calles, b. 1989Ignacio Calles, b. 1995

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 22 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Calles
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203.1K#9,831
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020103K#10,589
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—2K#2,394
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—2K#2,394
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002K#13,957
PA PanamaTribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election202411#276
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Calles mean, and where does it come from?
Plutarco Eli'as, Mexican politician Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
How do you pronounce Calles?
A machine transcription gives /kaʝes/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Calles have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 4.7 thousand people named Calles in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled calles.
How common is the name Calles?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,026 people named Calles in 2010, about 1 in 110 thousand residents.
How common is Calles compared with other names?
In Venezuela, Calles is the 644th 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, “Calles” — the 644th most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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