Kallen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: to call, shout
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkɔɫən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kallen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 669K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 34K
- NLNetherlands1 in 118K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 200 (measured from records)
- 1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)
≈560 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Källen in SE Sweden.
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)
to call, shout
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kallen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 143K | listed | Kallen | 73 |
| US United States | 497 | 1 in 669K | 1.8K | Kallen | 200 |
| CH Switzerland | 247 | 1 in 34K | 247 | Kallen | 25 |
| NL Netherlands | 147 | 1 in 118K | 147 | Kallen | 48 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 851K | 5 | Kallen | 37 |
| SE Sweden | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 181K | 1 | Källen | 7 |
| BE Belgium | 32 | 1 in 366K | 32 | Kallen | 10 |
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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the de-munich-vornamen register; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)
Kallen is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of kall
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, to chat, talk
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)
- Kitty Kallenb. 1921USAmerican singer (1921-2016)
- Lucille Kallenb. 1922USAmerican writer (1922–1999)
- Evelyn Kallenb. 1929CACanadian sociologist, anthropologist and university teacher
- Inka Kallénb. 1981FIFinnish actress
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 35 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.8K | #7,144 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 350 | #7,144 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 150 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 8 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2023 | 5 | #533 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #73,035 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2013 | — | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt München Open Data — Vornamen von Nulljährigen | 2022 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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 Kallen mean, and where does it come from?
- to call, shout Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kallen?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɔɫən/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Kallen?
- In the etymology graph, Call is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Kallen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 559 people named Kallen in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kallen.
- Where is Kallen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kallen is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 34 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kallen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 497 people named Kallen in 2010, about 1 in 669 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kallen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kallenThe 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, “Kallen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.