Caller
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from ME calle, from Fr cale ‘a kind of cap’, ‘a maker of cauls or coifs for the head’; first attested Walter Calyer 1275 RH (K)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kɔlɚ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Caller is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country.
- USUnited States≈1 in 1.3M(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 90K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 227K
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.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 137 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 90K (inferred from the name graph)
≈350 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- MEcalle(measured from records)
- Frcale(measured from records)
from ME calle, from Fr cale ‘a kind of cap’, ‘a maker of cauls or coifs for the head’; first attested Walter Calyer 1275 RH (K)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Caller 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Caller | 19 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 227K | — | Caller | 109 |
| US United States | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | 115 | Caller | 137 |
| IN India | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 13M | 1 | Caller | 7 |
| AU Australia | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 293K | — | Caller | 48 |
| ES Spain | 78 | 1 in 641K | 78 | Caller | 13 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 601K | — | Caller | 1 |
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 2000; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Caller is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, The person who makes a telephone call.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sco, Fresh (of food, especially fish).
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)
- Sergio Callerb. 1905PEPeruvian politician
- Laura Callerb. 1915PEPeruvian lawyer
- Camilo Callerb. 1975CZCzech drummer
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 12 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 115 | #134,929 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 78 | #32,731 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 78 | #32,674 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Caller mean, and where does it come from?
- from ME calle, from Fr cale ‘a kind of cap’, ‘a maker of cauls or coifs for the head’; first attested Walter Calyer 1275 RH (K) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Caller?
- A machine transcription gives /kɔlɚ/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Caller?
- In the etymology graph, Singer is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Caller have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 354 people named Caller in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled caller.
- How common is the name Caller?
- In Spain, the national register counted 78 people named Caller, about 1 in 641 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/callerThe 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, “Caller”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.