Caliva
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kaliba/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Caliva is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 9K(measured from records)
- AOAngola≈1 in 47K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 108K
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Sources
- 51 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.0K (inferred from the name graph)
5,047 people
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Caliva 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #924 | 5,047 | 1 in 9K | 5K | Caliva | 51 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Caliva | 2 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 163K | — | Caliva | 18 |
| US United States | — | 291 | 1 in 1.1M | 301 | Caliva | 33 |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Caliva | 6 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈82 est. | ≈1 in 142K | — | Caliva | 6 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 47 | 1 in 108K | 47 | Caliva | 7 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 163K | — | Caliva | 1 |
5,047 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
- Verónica Calivab. 1977ARArgentine politician
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 10 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 5K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 301 | #62,236 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 291 | #72,089 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 291 | #67,747 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 47 | #2,212 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Caliva?
- A machine transcription gives /kaliba/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Caliva have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 5.0 thousand people named Caliva, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled caliva.
- Where is Caliva most common?
- Caliva is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 9.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Caliva?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 5,047 people named Caliva, about 1 in 9.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Caliva compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Caliva is the 924th most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/calivaThe 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, “Caliva” — the 924th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.