Kalkun
surname · Latin script
Meaning: turkey (bird)
Kalkun is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 6.4Mas Калкун(inferred from the name graph)
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kalkun 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 32 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.4M (inferred from the name graph)
≈22 named Калкун, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Russia, est., as Калкун
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Калкун in RU Russia.
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)
turkey (bird)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kalkun 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.
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: the ee-stat-nimed 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)
Kalkun is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Indonesian, turkey (bird) (Meleagris gallopavo)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Faroese, turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, a turkey (large bird)
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)
- Gustav Kalkunb. 1898EEEstonian athletics competitor and sportsperson (1898-1972)
- Karl Kalkunb. 1927EEEstonian actor (1927-1990)
- Kalev Kalkunb. 1949EEEstonian translator (1949-2012)
- Kristjan Kalkunb. 1972EEEstonian sports journalist (born 1972)
- Andreas Kalkunb. 1977EEEstonian (Seto) poet, musician and folklorist (born 1977)
- Mari Kalkunb. 1986EEEstonian singer-songwriter and musician (born 1986)
- Stella Kalkunb. 1989EEEstonian textile artist (born 1989)
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 3 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 24 | #4,486 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 21 | #5,370 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Kalkun mean, and where does it come from?
- turkey (bird) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Kalkun have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 22 people named Калкун in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kalkun?
- Mondonomo estimates about 22 people in Russia have Калкун as their first surname, about 1 in 6.4 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Kalkun?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kalkunThe 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, “Kalkun”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.