Alcalay
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From Alcola, Spain
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: INSEE, 1991
/alkalai/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Alcalay is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- USUnited States≈1 in 1.7M(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 2.8Mfew records
- ESSpain1 in 5M
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 Alcalay itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 118 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 206K (inferred from the name graph)
1,312 named אלקלעי, 2017
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled אלקלעי in IL Israel, BG Bulgaria, FR France and Alkalay in CA Canada, NZ New Zealand.
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)From Alcola, Spain.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Alcalay 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #629 | 1,312as אלקלעי | 1 in 6.6K | 1.3K | אלקלעי | 35 |
| US United States | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | listed | Alcalay | 118 |
| FR France | — | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 702K | 7 | אלקלעי | 2 |
| BG Bulgaria | — | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 105K | — | אלקלעי | 3 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 974K | — | Alkalay | 12 |
| BR Brazil | — | 40 | 1 in 5.3M | 40 | Alcalay | 40 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 206K | — | Alcalay | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 689K | — | Alkalay | 1 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 234K | — | Alcalay | 4 |
1,312 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)- Luna Alcalayb. 1928ATAustrian pianist, educator and composer (1928–2012)
- Azaria Alcalayb. 1953ILIsraeli jurist
- Ammiel Alcalayb. 1956USAmerican poet, scholar, critic, translator, and prose stylist
- Elah Alcalayb. 1963ILIsraeli businesswoman, board member of NGOs
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 40 | #122,472 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 2 | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Alcalay mean, and where does it come from?
- From Alcola, Spain. Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
- How do you pronounce Alcalay?
- In Spanish /alkalai/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Alcalay have the most bearers?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named אלקלעי, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Alcalay?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 40 people named Alcalay, about 1 in 5.3 million residents.
- How common is Alcalay compared with other names?
- In Israel, Alcalay is the 629th most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alcalayThe 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, “Alcalay” — the 629th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.