Kalra
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname from Punjabi
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Kalra is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 135as Klára(measured from records)
- HUHungary1 in 303as Klára
- DKDenmark1 in 583as Clara
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 Kalra 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- #765 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 385 (measured from records)
- 1 in 135 (inferred from the name graph)
≈180,000 named Kali, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia, as Klára
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Clara in BR Brazil, MX Mexico, US United States and 1 more, Klara in CZ Czechia, HU Hungary, SE Sweden and Kali in IN India.
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
(measured from records)A surname from Punjabi.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kalra 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 8K | 13K | Kali | 204 |
| BR Brazil | #156 | 126,362as Clara | 1 in 1.7K | 126K | Clara | 197 |
| MX Mexico | #251 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 615 | Clara | 195 |
| US United States | — | 109,248as Clara | 1 in 3K | 109K | Clara | 385 |
| CZ Czechia | #188 | 79,200as Klára | 1 in 135 | 79K | Klara | 125 |
| HU Hungary | #263 | 32,293as Klára | 1 in 303 | 32K | Klara | 110 |
| SE Sweden | — | 16,804as Klara | 1 in 607 | 17K | Klara | 42 |
| PY Paraguay | #130 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 619 | — | Clara | 39 |
| DK Denmark | — | 10,060as Clara | 1 in 583 | 10K | — | 3 |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; MVČR — living population register 2017; Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Kalra 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 Aymara, La inadrníci<ÍA,o el aína
as a wordVocabulario de la lengua aymara
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)- Jawahar Kalrab. 1949CACanadian physician, clinical researcher and educator
- Virinder S. Kalrab. 1967GBBritish sociologist
- Ash Kalrab. 1972USAmerican politician
- Philip A Kalraresearcher
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)Evidence
(measured from records)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 11K | #899 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4.1K | #255 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,346 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,429 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 696 | #31,464 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 24 | #19,779 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 20 | #25,173 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Kalra mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Punjabi. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Kalra have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 180 thousand people named Kali in India, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kalra most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Kalra itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Czechia's: the national register counts about 1 in 135 people named Klára.
- How common is the name Kalra?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 126,362 people named Clara in 2022, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Kalra compared with other names?
- In Paraguay, Kalra is the 130th most common given name of 20,931 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kalraThe 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, “Kalra” — the 130th most common given name in Paraguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.