Kalna
loc · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Kalna is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. Kalna is also written Кальная in Cyrillic.
- CZCzechia1 in 36K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 71K
- PLPoland1 in 1.7M
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 Kalna 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- 1 in 36K (inferred from the name graph)
≈450 named Кальная, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Kalna in other scripts: Cyrillic and Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled Кальная in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, Кальна in UA Ukraine and Kalná in SK Slovakia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Kalna is found
(measured from records)Kalna 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 321K | — | Кальная | 102 |
| CZ Czechia | 300 | 1 in 36K | 300 | — | 9 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 136K | — | Кальна | 24 |
| US United States | 152 | 1 in 2.2M | 152 | — | 10 |
| SK Slovakia | 77 | 1 in 71K | 77 | Kalná | 8 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 546K | — | Кальная | 19 |
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: MVČR — living population register 2017; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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)Kalna 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 Latvian, genitive singular of kalns
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Kalna pagasts - Jēkabpils novada pagasts ar administratīvo centru Vidsalā, robežojas ar Ābeļu, Dignājas un Leimaņu pagastu, kā arī ar Aknīstes, Viesītes un Salas novadu
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Kalna Bužezers - ezers Virešu pagastā, platība - 10,3 ha; Bušezers II; Bužezers II; Kalnezers; Vizlas kalna ezers
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Kalna dzirnavezers - atrodas Jērcēnu pagastā, platība - 9,1 ha; Jērcēnu dzirnavezers; Dzirnavu ezers
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Kalna muiža - Brocēnu novada Cieceres pagasta apdzīvotās vietas "Kalnsētas" bijušais nosaukums
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Kalna dīķis - dzirnavezers Amatas novada Zaubes pagastā uz Zaubes upes; Zaubes dzirnavezers
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)- Nora Kalnab. 1939LVLatvian poet
- Inga Kalnab. 1972LVLatvian opera singer
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kalna?
- Mondonomo estimates about 448 people named Кальная in Russia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Czechia, Ukraine, United States and Slovakia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Kalna most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kalna is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 36 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kalna?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 300 people named Kalna, about 1 in 36 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kalnaThe 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, “Kalna”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.