Calva
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: bald patch (area of baldness)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kalba/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Calva is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country.
- ECEcuador1 in 1.5K(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 29K
- ESSpain1 in 52K
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.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- Sources
- 160 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
11,510 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
The calvaria; the dome or roof of the skull.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Calva is read(measured from records)
Calva is one spelling over 2 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.
- Spanish86%
bald patch (area of baldness)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English7.4%
The calvaria; the dome or roof of the skull.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Calva 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | #403 | 11,510 | 1 in 1.5K | 12K | Calva | 34 |
| US United States | — | 1,093 | 1 in 304K | 1.1K | Calva | 160 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Calva | 36 |
| ES Spain | — | 956 | 1 in 52K | 956 | Calva | 69 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 121K | — | Calva | 23 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Calva | 11 |
11,510 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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: INEC — civil registry names; 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). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Calva is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, synonym of calvados (“French apple brandy”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, feminine singular of calvo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Asturian, feminine singular of calvu
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, the bald scalp of the head
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)
- Esteban Calva Tellezb. 1930MXFather of Jose Luis Calva Zepeda
- Alejandro Calvab. 1968MXMexican actor
- Geovanny Benítezb. 1968ECnot in their usual nameEcuadorian politician
- Diego Calvab. 1992MXMexican actor
- Louis CalvaFRFrench sculptor
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)
Attested in 18 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
- Where does the name Calva come from?
- The calvaria; the dome or roof of the skull. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Calva?
- A machine transcription gives /kalba/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Calva mean?
- In Spanish, bald patch (area of baldness)
- In which country does Calva have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Calva, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled calva.
- Where is Calva most common?
- Calva is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.5 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Calva?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 11,510 people named Calva in 2024, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Calva compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Calva is the 403rd most common surname of 34,511 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/calvaThe 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, “Calva” — the 403rd most common surname in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.