Călin
org · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
Călin is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic калина (kalina), from Proto-Slavic *kalina. Compare Russian кали́на (kalína) and Polish kalina.
- RORomania≈1 in 800(inferred from the name graph)
- MDMoldova1 in 2.5K
- ATAustria≈1 in 44Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 190 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 803 (inferred from the name graph)
≈24,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Calin in RO Romania, US United States, DE Germany and 3 more.
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)- Old Church Slavonicкалинаkalina(measured from records)
- Proto-Slavic*kalina(measured from records)
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic калина (kalina), from Proto-Slavic *kalina. Compare Russian кали́на (kalína) and Polish kalina.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Călin 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #191 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 803 | — | Calin | 119 |
| US United States | — | 1,590 | 1 in 209K | 1.3K | Calin | 190 |
| MD Moldova | — | 1,325 | 1 in 2.5K | 1.3K | — | 23 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 53K | 1 | Calin | 43 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 218K | — | Calin | 76 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 44K | 3 | Calin | 29 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 64K | 50 | Calin | 23 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; e-services.md — living population register; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Călin Popescu-Tăriceanub. 1952RO60th Prime Minister of Romania (2004-2007)
- Călin Georgescub. 1962RORomanian politician (born 1962)
- Pacha Manb. 1975ROnot in their usual nameRomanian musician
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Călin mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic калина (kalina), from Proto-Slavic *kalina. Compare Russian кали́на (kalína) and Polish kalina. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people named Călin?
- Mondonomo estimates about 24 thousand people named Călin in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled calin. After it come United States, Moldova, Italy and Germany; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Călin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,590 people named Călin in 2020, about 1 in 209 thousand residents.
- How common is Călin compared with other names?
- In Romania, Călin is the 191st most common given name of 34,167 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/c%C4%83linThe 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, “Călin” — the 191st most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.