Kalata
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kalata is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from a derivative of the personal name Kdla (see Kalis).
- PLPoland1 in 15K(measured from records)
- PSPalestine≈1 in 275K
- HRCroatia1 in 325K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 55 (measured from records)
- 1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
2,511 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a derivative of the personal name Kdla (see Kalis).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kalata 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 2,511 | 1 in 15K | 1.3K | Kalata | 55 |
| US United States | 653 | 1 in 509K | 653 | Kalata | 45 |
| IN India | 312 | 1 in 4.3M | 312 | — | 2 |
| BR Brazil | 105 | 1 in 2M | 105 | — | — |
| EG Egypt | ≈89 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Kalata | 3 |
| GR Greece | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 339K | — | Kalata | 1 |
| PS Palestine | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 275K | — | Kalata | 1 |
| HR Croatia | 13 | 1 in 325K | 13 | — | — |
2,511 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)
Kalata is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Estonian, abessive singular of kala
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Nyanja, letter (written message)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Bambara, election
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Kirovgrada - pilsēta Krievijā, Sverdlovskas apgabalā, tās nosaukums līdz 1935. g.
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Biezs, raupjš audums (piemēram, zirgsega)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Dominik Kalatab. 1925SKSlovak jesuit and roman catholic bishop
- Anna Kalatab. 1964PLPolish politician
- Henryk KalataPLPolish telecommunications engineer
- Kurt KalataUSAmerican video game journalist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.3K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.3K | #2,290 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.2K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.2K | #2,453 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 653 | #34,618 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 625 | #34,308 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 594 | #39,885 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 312 | #12,995 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 105 | #61,079 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 13 | #28,516 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Kalata mean, and where does it come from?
- from a derivative of the personal name Kdla (see Kalis). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Kalata have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 2.5 thousand people named Kalata, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kalata.
- Where is Kalata most common?
- Kalata is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 15 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kalata?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2,511 people named Kalata in 2026, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kalataThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Kalata”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.