Kalden
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kəɫdən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kalden is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 107K(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 140K
- DEGermany≈1 in 435K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 51 (measured from records)
- 1 in 107K (inferred from the name graph)
≈180 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kalden 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 435K | — | Kalden | 49 |
| NL Netherlands | 162 | 1 in 107K | 162 | Kalden | 19 |
| US United States | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 14M | 141 | Kalden | 51 |
| IN India | 16 | 1 in 83M | 16 | Kalden | 13 |
| EE Estonia | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 140K | 20 | — | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 4.8M | 1 | Kalden | 14 |
| SE Sweden | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | — | Kalden | 3 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; the ee-stat-nimed 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kalden is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Danish, gerund of kalde
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)
- Petrus Kaldenb. 1670DEDutch Reformed Church minister
- Peter Kaldenb. 1923German fighter ace and Knight's Cross recipient
- Joachim Robert Kaldenb. 1937DErheumatologist
- Freimut Kaldenb. 2000DEGerman cinematographer, film producer and film editor
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)
Attested in 15 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 162 | #12,712 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 20 | #5,647 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 16 | #6,913 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 16 | #89,738 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 8 | #1,044 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #31,618 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #7,657 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Kalden?
- A machine transcription gives /kəɫdən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kalden have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 184 people named Kalden in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kalden.
- Where is Kalden most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kalden is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 107 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kalden?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 162 people named Kalden in 2007, about 1 in 107 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kalden?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kaldenThe 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, “Kalden”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.