Cala Surname
Approximately 43,535 people bear this surname
Cala Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 15,201 | 1:50,462 | 3,472 |
| Colombia | 6,590 | 1:7,249 | 914 |
| Cuba | 6,131 | 1:1,879 | 281 |
| Bolivia | 2,413 | 1:4,400 | 642 |
| Italy | 2,237 | 1:27,339 | 4,894 |
| Philippines | 1,947 | 1:51,997 | 8,566 |
| Argentina | 1,903 | 1:22,461 | 1,866 |
| Spain | 1,795 | 1:26,046 | 2,715 |
| United States | 1,365 | 1:265,538 | 25,001 |
| Venezuela | 511 | 1:59,108 | 2,744 |
| Albania | 449 | 1:6,490 | 1,240 |
| France | 406 | 1:163,603 | 25,496 |
| Peru | 382 | 1:83,205 | 5,719 |
| Greece | 274 | 1:40,437 | 6,511 |
| Mexico | 262 | 1:473,764 | 8,730 |
| Indonesia | 193 | 1:685,229 | 53,355 |
| South Africa | 183 | 1:296,053 | 28,632 |
| Zimbabwe | 165 | 1:93,565 | 13,336 |
| Dominican Republic | 123 | 1:84,821 | 3,815 |
| Taiwan | 113 | 1:207,476 | 1,777 |
| Germany | 87 | 1:925,350 | 65,249 |
| Portugal | 85 | 1:122,568 | 5,627 |
| England | 82 | 1:679,489 | 38,951 |
| Brazil | 77 | 1:2,780,186 | 82,572 |
| Belgium | 64 | 1:179,635 | 24,162 |
| DR Congo | 62 | 1:1,191,606 | 73,277 |
| Australia | 58 | 1:465,443 | 35,949 |
| Ethiopia | 49 | 1:1,990,740 | 8,024 |
| Canada | 35 | 1:1,052,731 | 78,176 |
| Angola | 25 | 1:1,079,569 | 3,117 |
| Lesotho | 21 | 1:96,788 | 10,857 |
| New Zealand | 18 | 1:251,574 | 23,165 |
| Ecuador | 16 | 1:994,115 | 14,535 |
| Sweden | 16 | 1:615,422 | 45,338 |
| Uganda | 15 | 1:2,602,619 | 75,106 |
| Poland | 14 | 1:2,714,911 | 112,031 |
| Nigeria | 13 | 1:13,626,366 | 237,812 |
| Chile | 13 | 1:1,355,113 | 23,887 |
| Singapore | 13 | 1:423,669 | 18,211 |
| Switzerland | 13 | 1:631,763 | 43,230 |
| Thailand | 9 | 1:7,848,705 | 447,191 |
| Qatar | 9 | 1:262,000 | 30,726 |
| Mozambique | 9 | 1:3,029,063 | 2,946 |
| Guam | 8 | 1:20,015 | 3,029 |
| Czechia | 7 | 1:1,519,067 | 97,842 |
| Netherlands | 5 | 1:3,377,435 | 111,911 |
| Croatia | 5 | 1:845,721 | 48,179 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1:8,619,025 | 73,251 |
| Saudi Arabia | 4 | 1:7,713,954 | 37,548 |
| Malaysia | 3 | 1:9,831,408 | 269,765 |
| Andorra | 3 | 1:27,946 | 1,499 |
| Kosovo | 3 | 1:620,623 | 10,771 |
| Russia | 3 | 1:48,041,019 | 639,186 |
| Romania | 3 | 1:6,692,623 | 78,504 |
| Japan | 3 | 1:42,614,764 | 59,022 |
| Ireland | 2 | 1:2,354,470 | 19,715 |
| Austria | 2 | 1:4,257,718 | 99,224 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Costa Rica | 2 | 1:2,390,034 | 10,205 |
| Denmark | 2 | 1:2,822,358 | 76,882 |
| Iran | 2 | 1:38,391,262 | 236,033 |
| Paraguay | 2 | 1:3,618,373 | 13,977 |
| Norway | 2 | 1:2,571,143 | 95,402 |
| Latvia | 2 | 1:1,025,023 | 41,546 |
| North Macedonia | 1 | 1:2,101,472 | 31,546 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Monaco | 1 | 1:37,066 | 4,748 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Uruguay | 1 | 1:3,431,758 | 38,295 |
| Bahrain | 1 | 1:1,348,608 | 10,432 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Brunei | 1 | 1:418,731 | 3,893 |
| Cambodia | 1 | 1:15,487,146 | 14,824 |
| New Caledonia | 1 | 1:276,223 | 10,363 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| Nicaragua | 1 | 1:6,021,090 | 8,768 |
| Slovenia | 1 | 1:2,487,675 | 31,128 |
| Slovakia | 1 | 1:5,336,450 | 140,422 |
| Serbia | 1 | 1:7,144,948 | 38,459 |
| Panama | 1 | 1:3,912,258 | 17,195 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Djibouti | 1 | 1:914,932 | 1,612 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 1 | 1:24,375,369 | 195,128 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 7 | 1:7,174,098 | 302,835 |
The alternate forms: Çala (2,239), Čala (367), Calà (246), Calá (20), Ćala (1), Càla (1) & Càlà (1) are calculated separately.
Cala (9,900) may also be a first name.
Cala Demographics
Average Male Cala Height
172.95 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Cala Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Cala Come From? nationality or country of origin
Cala is held by more people in India than any other country or territory. It may also appear as: Çala, Čala, Calà, Calá, Ćala, Càla or Càlà. Click here for further potential spellings of Cala.
How Common Is The Last Name Cala? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 12,885th most widespread family name on earth. It is borne by around 1 in 167,395 people. This surname occurs mostly in The Americas, where 44 percent of Cala reside; 35 percent reside in South Asia and 35 percent reside in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 61,664th most frequently used first name internationally It is held by 9,900 people.
This last name is most commonly held in India, where it is borne by 15,201 people, or 1 in 50,462. In India Cala is mostly concentrated in: Tamil Nadu, where 95 percent are found, Gujarat, where 4 percent are found and Andhra Pradesh, where 0 percent are found. Without taking into account India this surname exists in 83 countries. It is also found in Colombia, where 15 percent are found and Cuba, where 14 percent are found.
Cala Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Cala has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Cala last name rose 19,500 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it rose 8,200 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Cala Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Cala surname are 40.01% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US average, with 93.24% registered to vote for the party.
The amount Cala earn in different countries varies greatly. In Italy they earn 0.26% more than the national average, earning €30,108 per year; in Peru they earn 1.45% more than the national average, earning S/. 19,667 per year; in South Africa they earn 68.53% less than the national average, earning R 74,796 per year; in Colombia they earn 9.08% less than the national average, earning $20,641,200 COP per year; in United States they earn 10.39% more than the national average, earning $47,632 USD per year and in Canada they earn 8.9% more than the national average, earning $54,104 CAD per year.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
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