Caja
surname · Latin script
Meaning: box, case
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kaxa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Caja is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 9.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 49K
- BRBrazil1 in 161K
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.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 82 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
box, case
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Caja 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.
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Caja is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Una margarita
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In pi, gerundive of cajati (“to give up”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In arn, cooking pot
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In aey, woman
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Gregorio Salvador Cajab. 1927ESSpanish linguist
- Elena Cajab. 1941UYUruguayan sculptor
- Francisco Cajab. 1949ESSpanish philosopher
- Attilio Cajab. 1961ITItalian basketball coach
- Daniel Caja RubioCAdesigner and university professor
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 36 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 25,000 Nombres de Bebé (Vázquez de Haro, 2005) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Caja mean, and where does it come from?
- box, case Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Caja?
- A machine transcription gives /kaxa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Caja?
- In the etymology graph, Case, Cato and Cate are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Caja have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.3 thousand people named Caja in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled caja.
- How common is the name Caja?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,317 people named Caja, about 1 in 161 thousand 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/cajaThe 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, “Caja”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.