Call

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Call is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Turks & Caicos Islands it is the 3rd most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from ME calle, Fr cale ‘a close fitting cap worn by women’ or ME calle ‘sheepfold’; first attested Swanus Calle 1275 RH (W).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 22K◐
  • CACanada1 in 30K
  • AUAustralia1 in 37K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈16K ●

across 7 countries

Sources
355 ●

147K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 22K ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Çãll in NG Nigeria.

Meaning & origin●

from ME calle, Fr cale ‘a close fitting cap worn by women’ or ME calle ‘sheepfold’; first attested Swanus Calle 1275 RH (W)

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Call is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—15,324126K rec.1 in 22K16KCall355
GB United Kingdom—5,8085.9K rec.——Call77
CA Canada—2,4982.6K rec.——Call53
AU Australia—2,2782.3K rec.——Call56
IT Italy—826862 rec.——Call15
DE Germany—677710 rec.——Call47
TC Turks & Caicos Islands#35091.6K rec.——Call1
UA Ukraine—490496 rec.——Call2
RU Russia—375408 rec.——Call9
IL Israel—327337 rec.——Call4
TR Türkiye—281302 rec.——Call6
ES Spain—252253 rec.1 in 198K252Call27

Roughly 15K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 22K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English140K82%
  • Spanish7.3K4%
  • Chinese3.4K2%
  • 2.9K2%
  • French1.9K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English140,04882%
Spanish7,2764%
Chinese3,4072%
2,9432%
French1,8631%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Call is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname11K records spelled Call14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, France, Venezuela

    Languages: Spanish, French, Italian

    Also written Çâľl, Cãll, Čäll, Čåll, Čăll

  • Hindi surname5.1K records spelled Call8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Pakistan

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Çáll, Cāll, Çãll, Čall, Cäll

  • Indonesian surname899 records spelled Call11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Indonesia, Morocco, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Čãll, Çãll, Cãll, Čäll, Čåll

52 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Call 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 French, metonymic occupational name for a catcher of quails, from OF caille quail (L quaccula] cf. Quail i). 2. in Normandy and Picardy, normally a topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of stony soil, from ONF cail(ou) peb¬ ble, stone (of Celt, origin). 3. in S France, a metonymic Vars.: CalabrI, Calabro; CalabresI, Calabrese.

    as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

  • In English, To reach out with one's voice.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, Paolo, Venetian painter

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, Caliari [Veronese]

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, city, Colombia

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

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.

Over time●

0204060194019601980200056 · 1988

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Call in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1921–2015
Yearrecords
19211
19221
19231
19244
19251
19261
19273
19284
19295
19302
19312
19327
19336
193411
19357
19364
193712
193812
193912
194014
19419
194221
19439
194424
194512
194618
194724
194825
194917
195014
195112
195222
195315
195427
195515
195614
195719
195818
195937
196028
196120
196238
196331
196440
196525
196626
196721
196828
196934
197019
197125
197228
197319
197421
197520
197626
197719
197834
197925
198035
198138
198249
198348
198451
198550
198638
198740
198856
198939
199036
199142
199236
199348
199427
199525
199611
199713
19987
20081
20111
20131
20141
20151

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 83 years between 1921–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

175018001850190019502000Richard Keith Call, b. 1792Wilkinson Call, b. 1834Flora Call Disney, b. 1868Ramon Malla Call, b. 1922R. D. Call, b. 1950Brandon Call, b. 1976Sara Call, b. 1977David Call, b. 1982Evan Call, b. 1988

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 25 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Call
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202016K#2,226
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201015K#2,376
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200015K#2,238
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—252#13,852
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—252#13,836
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—194#18,089
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—155#16,844
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020111#47,181
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—111#58,586
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198856—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198451—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198550—

Reference works 4

  • Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (Tom II: C-D)
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname 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 2026-09-12 data build · 190 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Call?
We estimate roughly 16 thousand people bear Call (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Call have the most bearers?
We estimate about 15 thousand people bear Call in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled call.
How common is Call compared with other names?
In Turks & Caicos Islands, Call is the 3rd most common surname of 2,587 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Call mean?
Recorded meaning: from ME calle, Fr cale ‘a close fitting cap worn by women’ or ME calle ‘sheepfold’; first attested Swanus Calle 1275 RH (W)
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Call” — the 3rd most common surname in Turks & Caicos Islands. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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