Kallai
surname · Latin script
Meaning: The name Kallai is believed to be derived from a Hebrew root word meaning "frivolous" or "swift"
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kəlaɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kallai is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.
- RORomania≈1 in 100K(inferred from the name graph)
- GHGhana≈1 in 237K
- CZCzechia1 in 630K
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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 86 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 100K (inferred from the name graph)
≈210 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
The name Kallai is believed to be derived from a Hebrew root word meaning "frivolous" or "swift".
Sources 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kallai 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Kallai | 4 |
| US United States | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | 5 | Kallai | 86 |
| GH Ghana | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 237K | — | Kallai | 5 |
| BR Brazil | 34 | 1 in 6.2M | 34 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | — | Kallai | 20 |
| CZ Czechia | 17 | 1 in 630K | 17 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 13 | 1 in 902K | 13 | — | — |
| SG Singapore | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 793K | — | Kallai | 2 |
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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017; 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)
Kallai 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 Latvian, dative singular of kalla
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)
- Ernő Kállaib. 1890HUHungarian art historian, journalist, museologist, teacher (1890-1954)
- Gyula Kállaib. 1910HUHungarian politician (1910-1996)
- Lipót Kállaib. 1912HUassociation football player (1912-1989)
- Ferenc Kállaib. 1925HUHungarian actor (1925-2010)
- István Kállaib. 1929HUHungarian writer
- Ernő Kállai Kissb. 1939HUHungarian clarinetist (1939–2023)
- Gabor Kallaib. 1959HUHungarian chess player (1959-2021)
- Krisztina Kállai Nagyb. 1966HUHungarian illustrator
- Ernő Kállaib. 1969HUHungarian sociologist
- Norbert Kállaib. 1984HUHungarian football player
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 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 34 | #136,957 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 16 | #61,247 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 13 | #61,402 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Kallai mean, and where does it come from?
- The name Kallai is believed to be derived from a Hebrew root word meaning "frivolous" or "swift". Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- How do you pronounce Kallai?
- A machine transcription gives /kəlaɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kallai have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 214 people named Kallai in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kallai.
- How common is the name Kallai?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 34 people named Kallai, about 1 in 6.2 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kallaiThe 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, “Kallai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.