Calle
surname · Latin script
Meaning: beside a narrow path or a cattle track, Sp
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kaʝe/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Calle is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bolivia than in any other country, where it is the 16th most common surname.
- BOBolivia≈1 in 296(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 566
- PEPeru≈1 in 1.1K
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.
- Bolivia (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 258 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 296 (inferred from the name graph)
≈39,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bolivia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
beside a narrow path or a cattle track, Sp. calle (L calhs). In mod. Sp. this is the normal word for a street, but at the time when surnames were being formed it referred to something rather more modest. Var.: Calles. Dims.: Calleja(s), Callejo.
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Calle 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: INEC — civil registry names; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Calle 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 Spanish, beside a narrow path or a cattle track, Sp. calle (L callis). In mod. Sp. this is the normal word for a street, but at the time when surnames were being formed it referred to something rather more modest.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In Spanish, street
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Albanian, feminine of call (“inapt, unuseful, naive”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of calleō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, a diminutive of the male given name Carl
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)
- Paul Calleb. 1928USPostage stamp artist (1928-2010)
- Ignacio Calleb. 1930COColombian footballer (1930–1982)
- Sophie Calleb. 1953FRFrench artist (born 1953)
- Álvaro Calleb. 1953COColombian footballer (born 1953)
- Alicia Rubiob. 1962ESnot in their usual nameSpanish politician
- Niurka Melani Marcos Calleb. 1967CUCuban vedette and actress
- Elkin Calleb. 1980COColombian footballer
- Janier Acevedob. 1985COnot in their usual nameColombian cyclist
- Javier Calleb. 1991COColombian football player
- Sasha Calleb. 1995USColombian-American actress (born 1995)
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 38 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 30K | #141 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 30K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 11K | #516 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 11K | #516 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 221 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 11 | #105 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Calle come from?
- beside a narrow path or a cattle track, Sp. calle (L calhs). In mod. Sp. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How common is the name Calle?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 29,893 people named Calle in 2024, about 1 in 566 residents.
- How common is Calle compared with other names?
- In Bolivia, Calle is the 16th most common surname of 29,432 surnames recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Calle?
- A machine transcription gives /kaʝe/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Calle mean?
- Recorded meaning: beside a narrow path or a cattle track, Sp.
- What are other forms of the name Calle?
- In the etymology graph, Caye and Callejero are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Calle have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 39 thousand people named Calle in Bolivia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled calle.
What do you want to know about Calle?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/calleThe 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, “Calle” — the 16th most common surname in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.