Calcaño

surname · Latin script

Meaning: alternative form of calcañar

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Calcaño is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Dominican Republic than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DODominican Republic≈1 in 8.5K(inferred from the name graph)
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 45K
  • USUnited States1 in 427K

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.

Dominican Republic (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,200 people, est.

Sources
154 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 8.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Dominican Republic, est.

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:

Locally spelled Calcano in US United States, PR Puerto Rico, BE Belgium.

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)

alternative form of calcañar

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Calcaño 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 Calcaño is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DO Dominican Republic#395≈1,200 est.≈1 in 8.5K—Calcaño23
US United States—7791 in 427K823Calcano154
VE Venezuela—≈640 est.≈1 in 45K—Calcaño14
PR Puerto Rico—≈190 est.≈1 in 17K—Calcano5
ES Spain—1321 in 379K132Calcaño22
BE Belgium—≈50 est.≈1 in 232K—Calcano2
UY Uruguay—371 in 92K37Calcaño5

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 — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)

Calcaño is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Calcano

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Dominican Republic, Argentina, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Calcano

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium

    Also written Calcano

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Egypt

    Also written Calcano

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Calcano

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Calcano

7 further groups 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Calcaño is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Galician, heel

    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)

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 8 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Calcaño
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—132#22,577
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—132#22,519

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 Calcaño mean, and where does it come from?
alternative form of calcañar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Calcaño have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Calcaño in the Dominican Republic, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled calcaño.
How common is the name Calcaño?
In the United States, the national register counted 779 people named Calcaño in 2010, about 1 in 427 thousand residents.
How common is Calcaño compared with other names?
In the Dominican Republic, Calcaño is the 395th most common surname of 26,844 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Calcaño” — the 395th most common surname in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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