Kaldor
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a Magyarized form of German Kalter
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/cʰæɫdɒɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kaldor is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
- JMJamaica≈1 in 182K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 253K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 129 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 182K (inferred from the name graph)
298 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Káldor in HU Hungary.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from a Magyarized form of German Kalter.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kaldor 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 298 | 1 in 1.1M | 298 | Kaldor | 129 |
| AU Australia | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 253K | — | Kaldor | 56 |
| CA Canada | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 707K | — | Kaldor | 17 |
| IT Italy | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Kaldor | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Kaldor | 35 |
| HU Hungary | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 338K | — | Káldor | 12 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 182K | — | Kaldor | 1 |
| IL Israel | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 622K | — | Kaldor | 2 |
298 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Nicholas Kaldorb. 1908GBHungarian-British economist
- Pierre Kaldorb. 1912FRFrench lawyer (1912–2010)
- Charlotte Kaldorb. 1916FRFrench journalist and communist
- Andras Kaldorb. 1938architect
- Mary Kaldorb. 1946GBBritish economist
- Connie Kaldorb. 1953CACanadian singer-songwriter
- Amber Kaldorb. 1990AUAustralian gymnast
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 298 | #66,371 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 289 | #64,385 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 286 | #73,107 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Kaldor mean, and where does it come from?
- from a Magyarized form of German Kalter. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kaldor?
- A machine transcription gives /cʰæɫdɒɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kaldor have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 298 people named Kaldor, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kaldor.
- How common is the name Kaldor?
- In the United States, the national register counted 298 people named Kaldor in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kaldorThe 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, “Kaldor”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.