Kaļķe

surname · Latin script

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

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

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 39K(measured from records)
  • LVLatvia≈1 in 40K
  • BRBrazil1 in 706K

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)

300 people

Sources
7 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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

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

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kaļķe 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 Kaļķe is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil3001 in 706K300——
US United States1761 in 1.9M176—2
FI Finland1441 in 39K144—1
PL Poland491 in 781K27——
LV Latvia≈47 est.≈1 in 40K—Kaļķe7
AR Argentina421 in 1.1M42——

300 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; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)

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

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Kalke

  • Russian surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Калькэ, Кальке, Калке, Kalke, Калкэ

1 further group 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Kaļķe under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Kaļķe have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 300 people named Kaļķe, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Kaļķe most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kaļķe is densest in Finland — about 1 in 39 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Kaļķe?
In Brazil, the national register counted 300 people named Kaļķe, about 1 in 706 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, “Kaļķe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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