Kalia
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kalia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In English, recorded as A surname from Punjabi.
- INIndia1 in 271K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 594K
- GLGreenland1 in 633
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 255 (measured from records)
- 1 in 633 (inferred from the name graph)
4,892 people
Highest-authority source
Greenland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A surname from Punjabi.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Kalia is read(measured from records)
Kalia is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Hindi53%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Kalia in Hindi.
- English16%
A surname from Punjabi.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Swahili5.3%
Applicative form of -kaa: to sit on (someone or something)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kalia 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 4,892 | 1 in 271K | 4.9K | Kalia | 90 |
| US United States | 560 | 1 in 594K | 4.4K | Kalia | 255 |
| GL Greenland | 91 | 1 in 633 | 91 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | 32 | 1 in 183K | 32 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 30 | 1 in 182K | 30 | — | 3 |
4,892 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Kalia is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, var of Kala.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In fj, species of fish, called _ulu rua_ from the peculiar formation of its forehead
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Latin, nominative/accusative/vocative plural of kalium
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hawaiian, a female given name from Hawaiian
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)
- Jeffery Kaliab. 2000SBbadminton player
- Sangeeta KaliaUSassistant professor of clinical medicine
- Rohit KaliaINIndian actor and model
- Manjula KaliaINresearcher
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 57 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 4.9K | #1,602 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 703 | #34,665 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 560 | #39,281 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 353 | #1,518 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 303 | #61,855 |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2012 | 99 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2021 | 91 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 32 | #15,634 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 30 | #35,036 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Kalia mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Punjabi. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Kalia have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 4.9 thousand people named Kalia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kalia.
- Where is Kalia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kalia is densest in Greenland — about 1 in 633 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kalia?
- In India, the national register counted 4,892 people named Kalia, about 1 in 271 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kaliaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 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, “Kalia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.