Alkalay
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Alexandria, Salonika, Janina, Greece, Smyrna, Belgrado, Sarajevo, Brnjic, Sofia, Rousse, Bulgaria, Vienna, Buenos Aires; expelled from Spain 1492
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/æɫkəˈɫeɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Alkalay is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country.
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 2.6Kas אלקלעי(inferred from the name graph)
- ILIsrael1 in 6.6Kas אלקלעי
- USUnited States≈1 in 1.6Mas Alcalay
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Alkalay itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bulgaria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 118 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 218K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,700 named אלקלעי, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled אלקלעי in IL Israel, BG Bulgaria, RO Romania and 3 more and Alcalay in US United States, CY Cyprus.
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)Alexandria, Salonika, Janina, Greece, Smyrna, Belgrado, Sarajevo, Brnjic, Sofia, Rousse, Bulgaria, Vienna, Buenos Aires; expelled from Spain 1492
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Alkalay 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BG Bulgaria | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | אלקלעי | 3 |
| IL Israel | #629 | 1,312as אלקלעי | 1 in 6.6K | 1.3K | אלקלעי | 35 |
| US United States | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | listed | Alcalay | 118 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | אלקלעי | 3 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 658K | — | אלקלעי | 2 |
| GR Greece | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 103K | — | אלקלעי | 3 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 184K | — | אלקלעי | 1 |
| PL Poland | — | 15 | 1 in 2.6M | 8 | — | 3 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 218K | — | Alcalay | 4 |
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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Amnon Alkalayb. 1966ILIsraeli police officer
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 8 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 8 | #148,567 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7 | #160,527 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (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 Alkalay mean, and where does it come from?
- Alexandria, Salonika, Janina, Greece, Smyrna, Belgrado, Sarajevo, Brnjic, Sofia, Rousse, Bulgaria, Vienna, Buenos Aires; expelled from Spain 1492 Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Alkalay?
- A machine transcription gives /æɫkəˈɫeɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Alkalay have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.7 thousand people named אלקלעי in Bulgaria, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Alkalay?
- In Poland, the national register counted 15 people named Alkalay in 2026, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.
- How common is Alkalay compared with other names?
- In Israel, Alkalay is the 629th most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alkalayThe 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, “Alkalay” — the 629th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.