Montecalvo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from either of two places in Galicia called Montecalvo, from monte ‘mountain’ -I- calvo ‘bald’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/moʊntɛˈkɑɫvoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Montecalvo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 15K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 421K
- SDSudan≈1 in 8.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 192 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Sudan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitational name from either of two places in Galicia called Montecalvo, from monte ‘mountain’ -I- calvo ‘bald’. However, the American surname appears to be predominantly of Italian origin.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Montecalvo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Montecalvo | 41 |
| SD Sudan | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | — | Montecalvo | 1 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 129K | — | Montecalvo | 4 |
| US United States | 790 | 1 in 421K | 790 | Montecalvo | 192 |
| IT Italy | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 84K | listed | Montecalvo | 44 |
| QA Qatar | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 181K | — | Montecalvo | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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)
Montecalvo 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 Italian, habitational name from any of various places called Montecalvo (‘bald mountain’), especially Montecalvo Irpino in Avellino province.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Lara Montecalvob. 1974USAmerican lawyer
- Maria Stefania MontecalvoITItalian classical philologist
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 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 790 | #29,768 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 777 | #31,863 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 754 | #29,516 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- Where does the name Montecalvo come from?
- habitational name from either of two places in Galicia called Montecalvo, from monte ‘mountain’ -I- calvo ‘bald’. However, the American surname appears to be predominantly of Italian origin. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Montecalvo?
- A machine transcription gives /moʊntɛˈkɑɫvoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Montecalvo mean?
- Recorded meaning: habitational name from either of two places in Galicia called Montecalvo, from monte ‘mountain’ -I- calvo ‘bald’.
- In which country does Montecalvo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.5 thousand people named Montecalvo in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled montecalvo.
- How common is the name Montecalvo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 790 people named Montecalvo in 2010, about 1 in 421 thousand residents.
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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, “Montecalvo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.