Kálai
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Kálai is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Spoken form of the biblical Sarai (“Sarai”).
- NLNetherlands1 in 86K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 286K
- ESSpain1 in 317K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- 1 in 86K (inferred from the name graph)
200 people, 2007
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kalai in US United States, IN India, HU Hungary.
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)Spoken form of the biblical Sarai (“Sarai”).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Kálai is found
(measured from records)Kálai 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 200 | 1 in 86K | 200 | — | 2 |
| US United States | 169 | 1 in 2M | 228 | Kalai | 11 |
| ES Spain | 158 | 1 in 317K | 158 | — | — |
| IN India | 96 | 1 in 14M | 96 | Kalai | 4 |
| BE Belgium | 41 | 1 in 286K | 41 | — | — |
| HU Hungary | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 290K | — | Kalai | 20 |
| CH Switzerland | 20 | 1 in 420K | 20 | — | — |
200 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kálai mean, and where does it come from?
- Spoken form of the biblical Sarai (“Sarai”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kálai?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 200 people named Kálai, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Spain, India and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Kálai most common?
- Kálai is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 86 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kálai?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 200 people named Kálai in 2007, about 1 in 86 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%A1laiThe 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, “Kálai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.