Kalfa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: journeyman (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/kaɫfˈa/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Kalfa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Kalfa is also written Κάλφα in Greek.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 494K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 1.1M
- SESweden1 in 1.3M
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 Kalfa itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 31 (measured from records)
- 1 in 494K (inferred from the name graph)
172 named Calfa
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Kalfa in other scripts: Greek
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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.
How to pronounce Kalfa
- Turkish:/kaɫfˈa/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)journeyman
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Kalfa is found
(measured from records)Kalfa 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 172as Calfa | 1 in 1.2M | 172 | — | — |
| US United States | 121as Calfa | 1 in 2.7M | 121 | — | 3 |
| GR Greece | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 97K | — | Kalfa | 31 |
| AR Argentina | 59as Calfa | 1 in 771K | 59 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 20as Calfa | 1 in 2.5M | 20 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 20 | 1 in 1.9M | 13 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 17 | 1 in 494K | 17 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 11 | 1 in 1.1M | 11 | — | — |
| CY Cyprus | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 591K | — | Kalfa | 5 |
172 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)Kalfa is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In non, accusative/genitive plural of kalfr
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, pomoćnik kod zanatlija i trgovaca
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
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)- Steve Kalfab. 1955FRFrench actor
- Zvulun Kalfab. 1962ILIsraeli politician
- Burak KalfaTRfootballer
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kalfa mean, and where does it come from?
- journeyman Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Kalfa?
- In the etymology graph, Usta and Çırak are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Kalfa?
- In Turkish /kaɫfˈa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kalfa?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 172 people named Calfa, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Greece, Argentina and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Kalfa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kalfa is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 494 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kalfa?
- In Poland, the national register counted 20 people named Kalfa in 2026, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
What do you want to know about Kalfa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kalfaThe 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, “Kalfa” — ranked 41551st in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.