Kalay Surname
Approximately 18,828 people bear this surname
Kalay Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turkey | 12,920 | 1:6,023 | 856 |
| Myanmar | 2,974 | 1:17,464 | 386 |
| DR Congo | 739 | 1:99,972 | 11,221 |
| India | 568 | 1:1,350,467 | 52,427 |
| Indonesia | 414 | 1:319,442 | 28,056 |
| Tanzania | 261 | 1:202,841 | 17,276 |
| Philippines | 234 | 1:432,642 | 53,869 |
| Pakistan | 164 | 1:1,089,292 | 13,626 |
| England | 102 | 1:546,255 | 33,762 |
| United States | 90 | 1:4,027,321 | 218,060 |
| Germany | 58 | 1:1,388,025 | 86,120 |
| Liberia | 46 | 1:95,838 | 7,727 |
| Iran | 37 | 1:2,075,203 | 73,016 |
| Czechia | 31 | 1:343,015 | 41,724 |
| Netherlands | 22 | 1:767,599 | 58,330 |
| Russia | 17 | 1:8,477,827 | 301,506 |
| Canada | 13 | 1:2,834,276 | 161,175 |
| Slovakia | 12 | 1:444,704 | 54,815 |
| Belgium | 10 | 1:1,149,664 | 82,403 |
| Somalia | 9 | 1:1,494,673 | 3,608 |
| Northern Cyprus | 9 | 1:35,446 | 7,326 |
| South Africa | 8 | 1:6,772,213 | 167,054 |
| Ukraine | 8 | 1:5,690,337 | 241,823 |
| Afghanistan | 7 | 1:4,593,312 | 23,122 |
| Switzerland | 6 | 1:1,368,819 | 77,571 |
| Australia | 6 | 1:4,499,284 | 146,780 |
| United Arab Emirates | 6 | 1:1,527,046 | 51,993 |
| Spain | 6 | 1:7,792,006 | 100,283 |
| Sweden | 5 | 1:1,969,351 | 134,077 |
| Tunisia | 4 | 1:152,656 | 17,743 |
| Norway | 4 | 1:1,285,572 | 69,185 |
| Kazakhstan | 4 | 1:4,420,624 | 134,293 |
| Ethiopia | 4 | 1:24,386,566 | 19,165 |
| Taiwan | 3 | 1:7,814,915 | 41,694 |
| Israel | 3 | 1:2,852,545 | 113,505 |
| New Zealand | 2 | 1:2,264,162 | 49,210 |
| Cambodia | 2 | 1:7,743,573 | 11,959 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| Suriname | 1 | 1:552,616 | 9,664 |
| Uruguay | 1 | 1:3,431,758 | 38,295 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Croatia | 1 | 1:4,228,604 | 99,289 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1 | 1:3,536,402 | 19,532 |
| Azerbaijan | 1 | 1:9,649,122 | 47,873 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
The alternate forms: Kálay (20) are calculated separately.
Kalay (4,507) may also be a first name.
Kalay Demographics
Average Kalay Salary in
United States
$65,875 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Kalay Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kalay Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kalay (Arabic: كالاي, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻼﻱ, Hindi: कालया, Marathi: कालय, Oriya: କଲାୟ, Russian: Калай, Tibetan: ཀ་ལས་) is carried by more people in Turkey than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as a variant: Kálay. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kalay? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 28,547th most commonly held family name throughout the world, held by around 1 in 387,059 people. The surname is predominantly found in Asia, where 85 percent of Kalay reside; 62 percent reside in West Asia and 62 percent reside in Anatolia and Highlands. It is also the 102,509th most common first name worldwide, borne by 4,507 people.
This surname is most commonly used in Turkey, where it is held by 12,920 people, or 1 in 6,023. In Turkey Kalay is primarily found in: Istanbul Province, where 13 percent are found, Kahramanmaras Province, where 7 percent are found and Izmir Province, where 5 percent are found. Other than Turkey this last name is found in 56 countries. It is also found in Myanmar, where 16 percent are found and The DR Congo, where 4 percent are found.
Kalay Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Kalay last name are 5.59% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 58.82% registered with the party.
The amount Kalay earn in different countries varies markedly. In United States they earn 52.67% more than the national average, earning $65,875 USD per year and in Canada they earn 3.72% more than the national average, earning $51,531 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kalay Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kalay in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﻼﻱ | klay | - |
| Kalay in the Hindi language | ||
| कालया | kalaya | 67.86 |
| कलय | kalaya | 21.43 |
| काले | kale | 7.14 |
| कलाय | kalaya | 3.57 |
| Kalay in the Oriya language | ||
| କଲାୟ | kalaya | 54.55 |
| କଲାଏ | kala'e | 18.18 |
| କାଲାୟ | kalaya | 9.09 |
| କଳୟ | kalaya | 9.09 |
| କଳାୟ | kalaya | 9.09 |
| Kalay in the Marathi language | ||
| कालय | kalaya | 50.62 |
| कालाय | kalaya | 17.28 |
| कलय | kalaya | 11.11 |
| कलाय | kalaya | 7.41 |
| काळे | kale | 4.94 |
| काळय | kalaya | 4.94 |
| कालु | kalu | 2.47 |
| कलई | kala'i | 1.23 |
| Kalay in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཀ་ལས་ | kalé | 23.08 |
| དཀར་ལེགས། | karlek | 15.38 |
| ཀ་ལེགས། | kalek | 7.69 |
| ཀཱ་ལེགས་ | kalek | 7.69 |
| ཀ་ལེ་ | kalé | 7.69 |
| དཀར་ལེགས་ | karlek | 7.69 |
| ཀཱ་ལས་ | kalé | 7.69 |
| ཀ་ལགེས་ | kalagé | 3.85 |
| དཀར་ལས་ | karlé | 3.85 |
| ཀ་ལེགས་ | kalek | 3.85 |
| ཀཱ་ལེ། | kalé | 3.85 |
| ཀཱ་ལས། | kalé | 3.85 |
| དཀར་ལས། | karlé | 3.85 |
| Kalay in the Russian language | ||
| Калай | kalaj | - |
| Kalay in the Arabic language | ||
| كالاي | kalay | - |
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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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