Kalala
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kalala/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kalala is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.
- FRFrance
- USUnited States
- CDCongo - Kinshasa
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Kalala 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 yag, seagull
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In umb, gargle ; " sing " (of hen)
as a wordVocabulary of the Umbundu Language
In umb, rasp, scratch
as a wordVocabulary of the Umbundu Language
In umb, gargle
as a wordVocabulary of the Umbundu Language
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 643 | #7,625 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 327 | #65,511 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 167 | #106,570 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 52 | #25,360 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 41 | #27,021 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 37 | #23,367 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 37 | #16,096 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 29 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 20 | #23,589 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 16 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 15 | #97,717 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 12 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Kalala?
- A machine transcription gives /kalala/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Kalala have the most bearers?
- Kalala is most frequently recorded in France.
What do you want to know about Kalala?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kalalaThe 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, “Kalala”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.