Kalivas
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kalivas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: topographic name for someone hving in a hut, from kaliva ‘hut’ (classical Greek kalybe).
- USUnited States1 in 1M(measured from records)
- GRGreece≈1 in 66Kas Kalyvas
- CYCyprus≈1 in 91Kas Kalyvas
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 Kalivas itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 93 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.0M (inferred from the name graph)
326 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kalyvas in US United States, AU Australia, GB United Kingdom and 2 more and Καλυβας 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)
topographic name for someone hving in a hut, from kaliva ‘hut’ (classical Greek kalybe).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kalivas 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 | 326 | 1 in 1M | 326 | Kalyvas | 93 |
| GR Greece | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 66K | 13 | Καλυβας | 50 |
| AU Australia | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 442K | — | Kalyvas | 36 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 805K | — | Kalyvas | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | — | Kalyvas | 15 |
| CY Cyprus | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Kalyvas | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | 10as Kalyvas | 1 in 840K | 10 | — | 2 |
326 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling kalivas. 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; Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
- Tina KalivasAustralian costume designer
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 6 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 326 | #61,585 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 322 | #58,849 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 317 | #67,188 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Kalivas mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name for someone hving in a hut, from kaliva ‘hut’ (classical Greek kalybe). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Kalivas have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 326 people named Kalivas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kalyvas.
- Where is Kalivas most common?
- Kalivas is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.0 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kalivas?
- In the United States, the national register counted 326 people named Kalivas in 2010, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kalivasThe 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, “Kalivas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.