Kalfas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from kalfas ‘large pot’, presumably a metonymic occupational name for a potter or a nickname for someone with a pot belly
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kəɫfəz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kalfas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1M(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 104K
- GRGreece≈1 in 127K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 174 (measured from records)
- 1 in 104K (inferred from the name graph)
369 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Καλφας in GR Greece.
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from kalfas ‘large pot’, presumably a metonymic occupational name for a potter or a nickname for someone with a pot belly.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kalfas 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 | 369 | 1 in 104K | 187 | — | — |
| US United States | 329 | 1 in 1M | 342 | Kalfas | 174 |
| GR Greece | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 127K | 7 | Καλφας | 41 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 927K | — | Kalfas | 27 |
| AU Australia | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 430K | — | Kalfas | 32 |
| CZ Czechia | 25 | 1 in 428K | 25 | — | — |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 547K | — | Kalfas | 1 |
369 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Kalfas 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 Greek, status name for an apprentice, from Greek kalfas ‘apprentice’, Turkish kalfa.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Sotos Kalfasb. 2000SESwedish bacteriologist and microbiologist
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 12 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 342 | #63,119 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 340 | #56,246 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 329 | #61,123 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 187 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 187 | #17,224 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 182 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 182 | #17,945 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 25 | #46,893 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- What does the name Kalfas mean, and where does it come from?
- from kalfas ‘large pot’, presumably a metonymic occupational name for a potter or a nickname for someone with a pot belly. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kalfas?
- A machine transcription gives /kəɫfəz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kalfas have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 369 people named Kalfas, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kalfas most common?
- Kalfas is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 104 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kalfas?
- In Poland, the national register counted 369 people named Kalfas in 2026, about 1 in 104 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kalfasThe 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, “Kalfas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.