Calica
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/kalika/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Calica is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 535 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Tagalog Calica, a metonymic occupational surname from Spanish caliza (“limestone”).
- USUnited States1 in 622K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 9.6M
- PTPortugal≈1 in 280Kfew records
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 55 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 280K (inferred from the name graph)
535 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Caliça in PT Portugal.
How to pronounce Calica
- Spanish:/kalika/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- TagalogCalica(measured from records)
- Spanishcaliza“limestone”(measured from records)
Borrowed from Tagalog Calica, a metonymic occupational surname from Spanish caliza (“limestone”).
Cited for this meaning 2
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Calica is found
(measured from records)Calica 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 535 | 1 in 622K | 599 | Calica | 55 |
| PT Portugal | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 280K | — | Caliça | 5 |
| PL Poland | 4 | 1 in 9.6M | 2 | — | — |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | Calica | 33 |
| BR Brazil | — | — | 40 | Calica | 13 |
| GT Guatemala | — | — | — | Calica | 2 |
535 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); 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)- Arnold Barry CalicaUSPh.D. The Johns Hopkins University 1970
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Calica mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Tagalog Calica, a metonymic occupational surname from Spanish caliza (“limestone”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc.
- How do you pronounce Calica?
- In Spanish /kalika/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Calica?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 535 people named Calica, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled calica. After it come Portugal and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Calica?
- In the United States, the national register counted 535 people named Calica in 2010, about 1 in 622 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Calica?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/calicaThe 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, “Calica” — ranked 39592nd in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.