Calabria
loc · Latin script
Meaning: region of this name in SW Italy
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Calabria is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 11K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 21K
- ESSpain1 in 63K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 92 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Calábria in BR Brazil.
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)
region of this name in SW Italy. The surname and its vars. may also in part have been originally nicknames, for in the Trentine dialect the Calabrians are a byword for craft and guile, in the Abruzzi for high living, and in Naples for coarse boorishness. Vars.: Calabri, Calabro; Calabresi, Calabrese. Cogn.: Jewish (Sefardic): Kalavrez.
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Calabria 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 21K | listed | Calabria | 23 |
| BR Brazil | 1,347 | 1 in 157K | 1.3K | Calábria | 63 |
| US United States | 1,118 | 1 in 298K | 1.1K | — | 92 |
| ES Spain | 798 | 1 in 63K | 798 | Calabria | 76 |
| AR Argentina | 693 | 1 in 66K | 693 | Calabria | 48 |
| UY Uruguay | 308 | 1 in 11K | 308 | — | 13 |
| CH Switzerland | 58 | 1 in 145K | 58 | — | 6 |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register. 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)
Calabria is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, gion of this name in SW Italy. The surname and its vars. may also in part have been originally nicknames, for in the Trentine dialect the Calabrians are a byword for craft and guile, in the Abruzzi for high living, and in Naples for coarse boorishness. Cahy see Mulcahy Caiger see Cage
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In Italian, Calabria (a peninsula and administrative region of southern Italy)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, oriundo da região meridional da Calabria; de termo pré-latino cala
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In English, region, Italy
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, A peninsula and administrative region of southern Italy.
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)
- Pedro de Calabriab. 1677ESSpanish baroque painter and engraver (c.1677-1738)
- Giovanni Calabriab. 1873ITItalian saint (1873–1954)
- Raffaele Calabriab. 1906ITItalian Catholic archbishop (1906–1982)
- Ennio Calabriab. 1937ITItalian painter (1937–2024)
- Esmeralda Calabriab. 1964ITItalian film editor (born 1964)
- Mark A. Calabriab. 1969USAmerican academic
- Dante Calabriab. 1973USAmerican basketball player
- Annagrazia Calabriab. 1982USItalian politician
- Fabio Calabriab. 1987AUAustralian bicycle racer
- Davide Calabriab. 1996ITItalian association football player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.3K | #7,041 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #22,892 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #23,658 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #22,612 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 798 | #5,407 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 798 | #5,405 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 693 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 308 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 58 | #16,638 |
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Calabria come from?
- region of this name in SW Italy. The surname and its vars. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- What does the name Calabria mean?
- Recorded meaning: region of this name in SW Italy.
- In which country does Calabria have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.0 thousand people named Calabria in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled calabria.
- Where is Calabria most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Calabria is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Calabria?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,347 people named Calabria, about 1 in 157 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/calabriaThe 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, “Calabria”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.