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 Cala Salary in
United States
$47,632 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Cala Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Cala Come From? nationality or country of origin
Cala is carried by more people in India than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as a variant: Çala, Čala, Calà, Calá, Ćala, Càla or Càlà. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Cala? popularity and diffusion
Cala is the 12,885th most frequently used last name on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 167,395 people. This last name occurs mostly in The Americas, where 44 percent of Cala are found; 35 percent are found in South Asia and 35 percent are found in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 61,664th most commonly occurring forename worldwide It is held by 9,900 people.
Cala is most prevalent in India, where it is carried by 15,201 people, or 1 in 50,462. In India Cala is primarily concentrated in: Tamil Nadu, where 95 percent reside, Gujarat, where 4 percent reside and Andhra Pradesh, where 0 percent reside. Not including India this surname exists in 83 countries. It is also common in Colombia, where 15 percent reside and Cuba, where 14 percent reside.
Cala Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Cala has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Cala surname 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 bearing the Cala last name are 40.01% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 93.24% being registered with the political 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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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Cala
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