Kalpak
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Turkish: calpack
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kalpak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 3.8M(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 5.4M
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.8M (inferred from the name graph)
10 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
calpack
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Kalpak is read(measured from records)
Kalpak is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Turkish86%
calpack
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English5.5%
Alternative spelling of calpack.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kalpak 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 10 | 1 in 3.8M | 7 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 2 | 1 in 5.4M | 2 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Kalpak | 43 |
| DE Germany | — | — | — | Kalpak | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Kalpak | 3 |
| TR Türkiye | — | — | — | Kalpak | 5 |
10 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Kalpak 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 trk-pro, шапка, шляпа
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7 | #165,100 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #265,501 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #195,159 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
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 Kalpak mean, and where does it come from?
- calpack Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Kalpak?
- In the etymology graph, Ковпак and Колпак are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Kalpak have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 10 people named Kalpak, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kalpak most common?
- Kalpak is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.8 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kalpak?
- In Poland, the national register counted 10 people named Kalpak in 2026, about 1 in 3.8 million residents.
What do you want to know about Kalpak?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kalpakThe 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, “Kalpak”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.