Kalra
surname · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kalra is a surname, most frequently recorded in Argentina. In the Czechia it is the 66th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A surname from Punjabi.
- CZCzechia1 in 135◐
- HUHungary1 in 303
- SISlovenia1 in 482
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈593K ●
- #572 ●
- 9 ●
- Sources
- 350 ●
- 1 in 135 ◐
across 14 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
2.1M records
Official registry-verified
Czechia
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Clara in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, ES Spain and 10 more, Klara in HU Hungary, CZ Czechia, PL Poland and 4 more, Клара in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, UA Ukraine and 1 more and Kali in IN India, ID Indonesia, MY Malaysia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
A surname from Punjabi.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #231 | 619,657 | 378K rec. | — | 2.3K | Clara | 141 |
| IN India | — | 405,514 | 774K rec. | — | 13K | Kali | 184 |
| MX Mexico | #258 | 186,110 | 166K rec. | — | 615 | Clara | 186 |
| RU Russia | #254 | 140,317 | 33K rec. | — | #113 | Клара | 131 |
| PE Peru | #251 | 127,658 | 105K rec. | — | — | Clara | 65 |
| BR Brazil | #302 | 126,362 | 84K rec. | 1 in 1.7K | 126K | Clara | 193 |
| US United States | — | 109,086 | 183K rec. | 1 in 3K | 109K | Clara | 350 |
| FR France | — | 100,530△ | 360 rec. | 1 in 675 | 101K | — | 5 |
| CZ Czechia | #66 | 79,200△ | 2.1K rec. | 1 in 135 | 79K | Klara | 125 |
| VE Venezuela | #387 | 64,968 | 30K rec. | — | — | Clara | 58 |
| CL Chile | #235 | 61,443 | 3.4K rec. | — | 188 | Clara | 86 |
| ES Spain | #164 | 50,093 | 56K rec. | 1 in 998 | 50K | Clara | 192 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi86K57%
- 41K27%
- English14K9%
- Spanish8611%
- Bangla6781%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 85,514 | 57% |
| 41,119 | 27% | |
| English | 13,963 | 9% |
| Spanish | 861 | 1% |
| Bangla | 678 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Kalra is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Aymara, La inadrníci<ÍA,o el aína
as a wordVocabulario de la lengua aymara
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1918 | 1 |
| 1922 | 1 |
| 1923 | 1 |
| 1926 | 2 |
| 1928 | 3 |
| 1929 | 1 |
| 1930 | 4 |
| 1931 | 1 |
| 1932 | 3 |
| 1933 | 2 |
| 1934 | 4 |
| 1935 | 3 |
| 1936 | 1 |
| 1937 | 1 |
| 1938 | 4 |
| 1939 | 5 |
| 1940 | 7 |
| 1941 | 5 |
| 1942 | 8 |
| 1943 | 5 |
| 1944 | 7 |
| 1945 | 5 |
| 1946 | 7 |
| 1947 | 8 |
| 1948 | 10 |
| 1949 | 9 |
| 1950 | 11 |
| 1951 | 11 |
| 1952 | 11 |
| 1953 | 11 |
| 1954 | 7 |
| 1955 | 10 |
| 1956 | 8 |
| 1957 | 12 |
| 1958 | 12 |
| 1959 | 8 |
| 1960 | 19 |
| 1961 | 10 |
| 1962 | 9 |
| 1963 | 15 |
| 1964 | 14 |
| 1965 | 12 |
| 1966 | 8 |
| 1967 | 7 |
| 1968 | 13 |
| 1969 | 11 |
| 1970 | 14 |
| 1971 | 13 |
| 1972 | 13 |
| 1973 | 12 |
| 1974 | 12 |
| 1975 | 16 |
| 1976 | 13 |
| 1977 | 11 |
| 1978 | 18 |
| 1979 | 17 |
| 1980 | 17 |
| 1981 | 16 |
| 1982 | 11 |
| 1983 | 11 |
| 1984 | 10 |
| 1985 | 13 |
| 1986 | 4 |
| 1987 | 4 |
| 1988 | 9 |
| 1989 | 8 |
| 1990 | 5 |
| 1991 | 10 |
| 1992 | 4 |
| 1993 | 7 |
| 1994 | 5 |
| 1995 | 3 |
| 1996 | 4 |
| 1997 | 3 |
| 1998 | 1 |
| 1999 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 |
| 2011 | 4 |
| 2012 | 1 |
| 2013 | 2 |
| 2015 | 2 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 82 years between 1918–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Jawahar Kalrab. 1949CACanadian physician, clinical researcher and educator
- Virinder S. Kalrab. 1967GBBritish sociologist
- Ash Kalrab. 1972USAmerican politician
- Philip A Kalraresearcher
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 23 sources across 13 countries.
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 183 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Kalra?
- We estimate roughly 593 thousand people bear Kalra (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
- In which country does Kalra have the most bearers?
- Kalra is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled clara.
- Where is Kalra most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kalra is densest in the Czechia — about 1 in 135 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Kalra compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Kalra is the 231st most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Kalra mean?
- Recorded meaning: A surname from Punjabi.
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About this data
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kalra” — the 231st most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.