Kallin

surname · Latin script

Meaning: ornamental name from the place-name element Kal- (see Kalberg) -I- the conunon surname suffix -in, from the Latin adjectival ending -inius ‘relating to’

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/kəʎɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 8.1K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 98K
  • NONorway1 in 911K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Sweden (measured from records)

1,252 people

Sources
48 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 8.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

ornamental name from the place-name element Kal- (see Kalberg) -I- the conunon surname suffix -in, from the Latin adjectival ending -inius ‘relating to’.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kallin 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 Kallin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden1,2521 in 8.1K1.3KKallin48
US United States3371 in 987K337Kallin8
FI Finland571 in 98K57——
NO Norway61 in 911K6—2
DK Denmark41 in 1.5M4Kallin10

1,252 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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)

Kallin is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Finnish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, United States, Estonia

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Källin

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden, Brazil, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Kallín, Kalliñ

  • Russian surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Türkiye, United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Каллин, Каллін, Cullin

32 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)

Kallin 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 Basque, KALLIN ( BN-baig ap. A ) . (Forma con palat. expresiva). Perro faldero . "Perro carlín" A s.v. txakur.

    as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia

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)

1850190019502000Karl Kallin, b. 1880Anna Kristina Kallin, b. 1953Micael Kallin, b. 1964Mikael Kallin, b. 1974Patrik Kallin, b. 1979

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)

FormalDear Kallin,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 26 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Kallin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.3K#818
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010337#59,901
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020324#66,015
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000313#60,230
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—57#20,236
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—6#64,904
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—4#72,970
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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 Kallin mean, and where does it come from?
ornamental name from the place-name element Kal- (see Kalberg) -I- the conunon surname suffix -in, from the Latin adjectival ending -inius ‘relating to’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Kallin?
A machine transcription gives /kəʎɪn/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Kallin have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Kallin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kallin.
Where is Kallin most common?
Kallin is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 8.1 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Kallin?
In Sweden, the national register counted 1,252 people named Kallin, about 1 in 8.1 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, “Kallin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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