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The CAL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 490 41793 0 2
United States (1880 census) 23 70352 0 0
Change since 1880 +467 +28559 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 22 49154 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for CAL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 93 21890 0.000 3
Florida 57 24647 0.000 4
Illinois 50 22941 0.000 4
New York 29 52346 0.000 2
Tennessee 26 12991 0.000 5
Top States for CAL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 24 10760 0.001 5
Tennessee 26 12991 0.000 5
Illinois 50 22941 0.000 4
Florida 57 24647 0.000 4
Connecticut 12 32406 0.000 4

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CAL live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CAL represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CAL in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CAL by picking someone at random in Alabama than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CAL

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the CAL surname.

Ethnic distribution of CAL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 177 36.12
White (Caucasian) 112 22.86
Asian/Pacific 91 18.57
White (Hispanic) 87 17.76
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CAL surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

CAL is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of CAL in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of CAL.

Similar names to CAL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CAL.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for CAL

The following words are slight variants of CAL that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.