Kalma
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kalma is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India.
- INIndia
- PKPakistan
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 29 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kalma counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 11 | Kalma | 23 |
| PK Pakistan | — | — | Kalma | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 250 | — | 3 |
| US United States | — | 136 | — | 13 |
| FI Finland | — | 32 | — | — |
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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Kalma is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Filipino, calmness; peace; stillness
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In io, calm, still, placid
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pam, fate; fortune
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In izh, burial mound
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kea, to calm
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, death
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)
- Jacob Kalmab. 1907NLpolitician
- Ludvík Kalmab. 1941CZCzech manager (1941-1996)
- Ariel Kalmab. 1950French composer and musician
- Ivar Kalmab. 1959EEEstonian bridge player and engineer (1959-2023)
- Fenna Kalmab. 1999NLDutch footballer (born 1999)
- Katrin KalmaEEEstonian actor
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 22 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 250 | #8,309 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 136 | #126,018 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 134 | #131,805 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 130 | #122,534 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 32 | #33,017 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 11 | #112,142 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 7 | #117,745 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- In which country does Kalma have the most bearers?
- Kalma is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled kalma.
What do you want to know about Kalma?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kalmaThe 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, “Kalma”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.