Calija
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Calija is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Calija is also written Чалија in Cyrillic.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 290Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 7.3Mfew records
- RSSerbia≈1 in 30Kfew recordsas Чалија
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Calija itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 55 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈400 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bosnia & Herzegovina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Calija in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Čalija in RS Serbia, HR Croatia, BA Bosnia & Herzegovina.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Calija is found
(measured from records)Calija 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 288K | — | Calija | 20 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Čalija | 5 |
| RS Serbia | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Čalija | 17 |
| US United States | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 7.3M | listed | Calija | 55 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | — | Calija | 4 |
| HR Croatia | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 548K | — | Čalija | 5 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Calija?
- Mondonomo estimates about 403 people named Calija in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled calija. After it come Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia, United States and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Calija?
- Mondonomo estimates about 400 people in the Philippines have Calija as their first surname, about 1 in 288 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Calija?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/calijaThe 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, “Calija”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.