Kalvis
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kalvis is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: smith.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.4M(measured from records)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 8.2Mas Кальвіс
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 Kalvis 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.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4M (inferred from the name graph)
6 people, 2024
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Калвис in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and Кальвіс in UA Ukraine.
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)
smith
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kalvis 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | — | — |
| UA Ukraine | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 8.2M | — | Кальвіс | 6 |
| RU Russia | — | — | — | Калвис | 10 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | — | — | Калвис | 4 |
| LV Latvia | — | — | 694 | Kalvis | 4 |
| NO Norway | — | — | 18 | — | — |
6 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Kalvis is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Baltu tautu mitoloģijā - kalējs, pērkondieva Pērkona palīgs, kurš izkaļ dievam ieročus, bet saules meitai - saktu
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Parastā kalme ("Acorus calamus")
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Kalējs
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Plg. lat. Kalvis (LAG 250). Iš liet. kalvis „kas verčiasi metalo kalimo amatu“ (LKŽ V 166), plg. lat. kalvis „kalvis“ (LVY II 146)
as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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)
- Kalvis Eisaksb. 1983LVLatvian bicycle racer
- Kalvis Mihailovsb. 1988LVLatvian orienteer
- Kalvis Kalninsb. 1991LVLatvian kyokushin
- Kalvis Marks JansonsGBPh.D. University of Cambridge 1984
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)
Attested in 15 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6 | #89,778 |
Reference works 3
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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 Kalvis mean, and where does it come from?
- smith Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Kalvis a male or female name?
- Kalvis is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Kalvis have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 6 people named Kalvis, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kalvis most common?
- Kalvis is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.4 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kalvis?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 6 people named Kalvis in 2024, about 1 in 1.4 million 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/kalvisThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Kalvis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.