Kallan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Alternative form of Kallar (“member of certain Indian caste”)
Used for both men and women· registers list it under both sexes; no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Kallan is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia≈1 in 6.3Kas Kalyan(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 71Kfew recordsas Kalyan
- SGSingapore≈1 in 93Kfew recordsas Kalyan
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 Kallan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 234 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈230,000 named Kalyan, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est., as Kalyan
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)9 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kalyan in IN India, US United States, BD Bangladesh and 2 more and กล้าหาญ in TH Thailand.
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)Alternative form of Kallar (“member of certain Indian caste”).
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Kallan, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kallan 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 | #919 | ≈230,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | 706 | Kalyan | 200 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Kalyan | 31 |
| US United States | — | 1,248as Kalyan | 1 in 267K | 15K | Kalyan | 234 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 241K | listed | Kalyan | 16 |
| TH Thailand | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 165K | register #7,853 | กล้าหาญ | 96 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 122K | 162 | — | — |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Kalyan | 23 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies. 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)Kallan 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 Finnish, genitive 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)- Canuto Kallanb. 1960DKDanish painter and engraver
- Gerald Kallanb. 1979ATluger
- Noah Kallanb. 2004ATAustrian luger
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 331 | #11,425 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 133 | #120,330 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 116 | #143,149 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 114 | #146,495 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 23 | #71,852 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Kallan mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative form of Kallar (“member of certain Indian caste”). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Kallan a male or female name?
- Kallan is used for both men and women. National registers that list it by sex count it under both: United States (Census Bureau, 2020). We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Kallan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 232 thousand people named Kalyan in India, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kallan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,248 people named Kalyan in 2020, about 1 in 267 thousand residents.
- How common is Kallan compared with other names?
- In India, Kallan is the 919th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kallan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kallanThe 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, “Kallan” — the 919th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.