Kaloo
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kaloo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 14Kas Kali(measured from records)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 281Kas Kalu
- NGNigeria≈1 in 3.3Kas Kalu
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 Kaloo 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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 187 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈65,000 named Kalu, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est., as Kalu
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kalu in PK Pakistan, NG Nigeria, LK Sri Lanka and 1 more and Kool in US United States, KE Kenya.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kaloo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈65,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | listed | Kalu | 38 |
| US United States | — | 23,482as Kali | 1 in 14K | 23K | Kool | 187 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Kalu | 20 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 281K | — | Kalu | 11 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Kool | 8 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #395 | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Kalu | 25 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Kaloo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 65 thousand people named Kalu in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kaloo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 23,482 people named Kali in 2020, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Kaloo compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Kaloo is the 395th most common given name of 14,062 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kaloo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kalooThe 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, “Kaloo” — the 395th most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.