Calvo

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Spanish: bald

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/kalbo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Calvo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country, where it is the 64th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 156(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 743
  • ARArgentina1 in 3.1K

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.

Spain (measured from records)

67,348 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
315 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 156 (inferred from the name graph)

Costa Rica

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

CalvoLatin(measured from records)
КальвоCyrillic(measured from records)

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(measured from records)

bald

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

How Calvo is read(measured from records)

Calvo is one spelling over 2 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.

  • Spanish78%

    bald

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • English10.0%

    Paul MacDonald, US governor,

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

    Guam

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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 in the world(measured from records)

Calvo 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.

Where Calvo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain#6467,3481 in 74367KCalvo210
CR Costa Rica#4132,6641 in 15633KCalvo120
AR Argentina#33114,9081 in 3.1K15KCalvo122
CO Colombia#437≈12,000 est.≈1 in 4.1K9Calvo132
PH Philippines—≈9,100 est.≈1 in 12K—Calvo50
UY Uruguay—3,1871 in 1.1K3.2K—45

67,348 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; the co-datosgov-candidates register; 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Calvo is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Spain, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Calvó, Cālvó

  • Catalan surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Andorra, Spain

    Also written Calvó

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Calvó

49 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Calvo is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Portuguese, calvo; bald

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

  • In Italian, do lat. calvus, 'careca'; pode reproduzir o nome próprio Calvus.

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In Italian, Variante di Calvi

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

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)

18001850190019502000Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, b. 1828Joaquín Sánchez de Toca Calvo, b. 1852José Calvo Sotelo, b. 1893Paco Malgesto, b. 1914José Calvo, b. 1916Carmen Calvo Poyato, b. 1957Eddie Calvo, b. 1961Adelfa Calvo, b. 1962Gisela, b. 1979Diego Calvo, b. 1991

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)

FormalEstimado/a Calvo,Dear Calvo, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Calvo,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 39 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Calvo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—67K#63
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—67K#63
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—33K#64
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—15K—
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—3.2K—
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—9#107
CR Costa RicaTSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration)———

Reference works 6

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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 Calvo mean, and where does it come from?
bald Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Calvo?
A machine transcription gives /kalbo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What are other forms of the name Calvo?
In the etymology graph, Cánovas is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Calvo have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 67 thousand people named Calvo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled calvo.
Where is Calvo most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Calvo is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 156 people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Calvo?
In Spain, the national register counted 67,348 people named Calvo, about 1 in 743 residents.
How common is Calvo compared with other names?
In Spain, Calvo is the 64th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Calvo” — the 64th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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