# Calderon (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/calderon/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Spanish, an anglicization of Calderón.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Spanish |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 77,085 |
| US rank (2010) | 421 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 4,005 people |
| Change since 2000 | +41% (54,691 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Calderon in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 5.0% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.6% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 93% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.5% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.2% |
| Two or more races | 0.3% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Calderon in Argentina, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the United States and Mexico.

## People named Calderon

- Gabriel Calderón, Argentine association football player and manager
- Alberto Calderón, Argentine mathematician (1920–1998)
- Philip Hermogenes Calderon, British artist (1833-1898)
- Cleofe Calderon, Argentine botanist, agrostologist and botanical collector (1929 - 2007)
- J. P. Calderon, American volleyball player, model and reality television participant
- Sergio Calderón, American actor (1945–2023)

## Similar surnames

Calderone, Coldiron, Coldren, Caldera, Calder, Caulder, Calderwood, Childers, Childress, Coulter, Cloutier, Colter.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.