Chalá
surname · Latin script
Meaning: second-person singular voseo imperative of chalar
Chalá is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ethiopia than in any other country.
- ETEthiopia≈1 in 2.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 10K
- UAUkraine≈1 in 12Kas Чала
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Chalá 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.
- Ethiopia (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 107 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈41,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ethiopia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Chile in AR Argentina, CO Colombia, DO Dominican Republic, Чала in UA Ukraine and ጫላ in ET Ethiopia.
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)
second-person singular voseo imperative of chalar
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chalá 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ET Ethiopia | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | ጫላ | 24 |
| CO Colombia | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 5 | Chile | 70 |
| EC Ecuador | 4,286 | 1 in 3.9K | 4.3K | Chalá | 26 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Чала | 32 |
| AR Argentina | 2,311as Cala | 1 in 20K | 2.3K | Chile | 29 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Chile | 18 |
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: INEC — civil registry names; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the co-datosgov-candidates 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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chalá mean, and where does it come from?
- second-person singular voseo imperative of chalar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Chalá have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 41 thousand people named Chalá in Ethiopia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ጫላ.
- How common is the name Chalá?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 4,286 people named Chalá in 2024, about 1 in 3.9 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Chalá?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chal%C3%A1The 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, “Chalá”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.