Kalva
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kəɫvə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kalva is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India.
- INIndia
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 124 (measured from records)
no count published
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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 in the world(measured from records)
Kalva 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 | — | 1.7K | Kalva | 81 |
| US United States | — | 241 | — | 124 |
| FI Finland | — | 85 | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 62 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 60 | — | 1 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); MVČR — living population register 2017; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Kalva 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 Norwegian Nynorsk, to give birth, to calve
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, to give birth
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, bald
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Lithuanian, hill
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Paugurs, arī kokiem apaudzis uzkalns (piemēram, purvā); pauguru rinda līdztekus kāpām (Kurzemes jūrmalā)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Purva cūkausis ("Calla palustris"), daudzgadīgs kallu dzimtas augs
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)
- Paulis Kalvab. 1919LVLatvian translator
- Bohuslav Kalvab. 1940CZCzech actor
- Jaroslava Kalvováb. 1940CZnot in their usual nameCzech university teacher
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)
Attested in 18 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 2K | #1,874 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1.7K | #3,533 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 241 | #83,936 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 174 | #103,181 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 62 | #24,971 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 61 | #9,709 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 60 | #92,187 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #35,999 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Kalva?
- A machine transcription gives /kəɫvə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Kalva have the most bearers?
- Kalva is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled kalva.
What do you want to know about Kalva?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kalvaThe 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, “Kalva”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.