Calo
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: the soundable depth of a body of water (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈka.lo/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Calo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 4.4K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 7.9K
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 13Kfew 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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 253 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Calò in IT Italy.
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.
How to pronounce Calo
- Spanish:/ˈka.lo/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Portuguese:/ˈka.lu/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)the soundable depth of a body of water
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Calo is read
(measured from records)Calo is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English42%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Calo in English.
- Spanish37%
the soundable depth of a body of water
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese6.7%
callus (hardened area of the skin)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where the surname Calo is found
(measured from records)Calo 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 | — | ≈8,000 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Calo | 66 |
| IT Italy | #514 | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | listed | Calò | 85 |
| US United States | — | 1,908 | 1 in 174K | 2.1K | Calo | 253 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,591 | 1 in 29K | 1.6K | Calo | 63 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,452 | 1 in 34K | 1.5K | Calo | 83 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Calo | 17 |
| UY Uruguay | #719 | 762 | 1 in 4.4K | 762 | Calo | 18 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #448 | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | — | Calo | 22 |
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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the xinhua-italian-manual register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)Calo is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Kurdish, White-browed
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
In Catalan, first-person singular present indicative of calar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, passenger recruiter, ticket scalper, broker
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Cebuano, a surname transferred from the common noun
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)- José López Calob. 1922ESSpanish musicologist (1922-2020)
- Teresa Calob. 1955ESSpanish actress
- Joanna Calob. 1980USAmerican television writer and director
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)29 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Calo mean, and where does it come from?
- the soundable depth of a body of water Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Calo?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /ˈka.lo/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /ˈka.lu/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Calo?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.0 thousand people named Calo in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled calo. After it come Italy, United States, Argentina and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Calo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Calo is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 4.4 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Calo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,908 people named Calo in 2010, about 1 in 174 thousand residents.
- How common is Calo compared with other names?
- In Puerto Rico, Calo is the 448th most common surname of 8,205 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/caloThe 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, “Calo” — the 448th most common surname in Puerto Rico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.