Kallaste

surname · Latin script

Meaning: genitive plural of kallas

Kallaste is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 47K(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 273K
  • SESweden1 in 850K

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 Kallaste 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.

Finland (measured from records)

119 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
35 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 47K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KallasteLatin(measured from records)
КалластеCyrillic(measured from records)

Locally spelled Калласте in RU Russia, EE Estonia, UA Ukraine.

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)

genitive plural of kallas

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kallaste 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.

Where Kallaste is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland1191 in 47K119——
NO Norway201 in 273K20——
RU Russia≈16 est.≈1 in 8.6M—Калласте35
SE Sweden121 in 850K12——
UA Ukraine≈8 est.≈1 in 5.6M—Калласте7
EE Estonia≈2 est.≈1 in 701K336Калласте4

119 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the ee-stat-nimed register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kallaste is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Vodi

20 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Kallaste is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swedish, attributive superlative degree of kall

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, pilsēta Igaunijā, Tartu apriņķī, Peipusa ezera krastā, 850 iedzīvotāju (2011. g.), pilsētas tiesības kopš 1938. g.

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

1850190019502000Juhan Kallaste, b. 1891Rudolf Kallaste, b. 1904Toivo Kallaste, b. 1956Ahti Kallaste, b. 1958Aivar Kallaste, b. 1959Risto Kallaste, b. 1971Toomas Kallaste, b. 1971Harmo Kallaste, b. 1972Maria Kallaste, b. 1983Ken Kallaste, b. 1988

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)

FormalLugupeetud Kallaste,Dear Kallaste, (English)
InformalTere Kallaste,Hi Kallaste, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Kallaste
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—336#99
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—296#145
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—119#11,185
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—20#42,778
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—12#35,323

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Kallaste mean, and where does it come from?
genitive plural of kallas Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Kallaste have the most bearers?
In Finland, the national register counted about 119 people named Kallaste, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Kallaste most common?
Kallaste is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 47 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Kallaste?
In Finland, the national register counted 119 people named Kallaste, about 1 in 47 thousand residents.

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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, “Kallaste”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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