Califa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: caliph
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kalifa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Califa is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- COColombia
- ARArgentina
- FRFrance
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
caliph
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Califa 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 Portuguese, caliph (political leader of the Muslim world)
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)
- Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thanib. 1932QAnot in their usual nameformer Emir of Qatar (1932–2016)
- Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifab. 1935BHnot in their usual namePrime Minister of Bahrain (1970-2020)
- Khalifa Al Dhahranib. 1942BHnot in their usual nameMember of the National Assembly of Bahrain
- Khalifa Belqasim Haftarb. 1943LYnot in their usual nameLibyan war criminal
- Khalifah Mustafab. 1944LYnot in their usual nameLibyan writer and novelist
- Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyanb. 1948AEnot in their usual namePresident of the United Arab Emirates from 2004 to 2022
- Khalifa al-Ghawib. 1963LYnot in their usual nameLibyan politician
- Khalifa Natourb. 1965ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli Palestinian actor
- Khalifa Muhammad Turki al-Subaiyb. 1965QAnot in their usual nameQatari al-Qaeda facilitator and financier (born 1965)
- Khalifa Sankaréb. 1984SNnot in their usual nameSenegalese footballer
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)
Attested in 6 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 29 | #152,390 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 11 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #2,544 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Califa mean, and where does it come from?
- caliph Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Califa?
- A machine transcription gives /kalifa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Califa have the most bearers?
- Califa is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Califa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/califaThe 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, “Califa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.