How common is the surname Calderon?

77,085 people in the United States had the surname Calderon in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 4,005 Americans. It ranked 421st of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Calderon?

Gabriel Calderón, Argentine association football player and manager, followed by Alberto Calderón.

Where is the surname Calderon most common?

Wikidata records people named Calderon in Argentina, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United States and 1 other country.

Is the surname Calderon getting more or less common?

More common. 54,691 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 77,085 in 2010, up 41%.

The surname Calderon

A Spanish surname, carried by 77,085 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex C436

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Calderon is more common than 99.7% of them.

Origin

Spanish origin

A surname from Spanish, an anglicization of Calderón.

One of 992 Spanish surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 77,085 people named Calderon in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 4,005 Americans. That is up 41% since 2000, when the Census counted 54,691.

#421

rank among US surnames

77,085

people in 2010

per 100,000 Americans

+40.9%

change since 2000 (was #550)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#412	Ramsey	78,350	3,941
#413	Francis	78,327	3,942
#414	Griffith	78,260	3,945
#415	Paul	78,256	3,945
#416	Blair	78,026	3,957
#417	O'Connor	77,923	3,962
#418	Cardenas	77,652	3,976

Who is named Calderon

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

93% of people named Calderon identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 5.0% as white (not Hispanic) and 1.5% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

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

Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

Famous Calderons

6 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Gabriel Calderón
Argentine association football player and manager, born 1960
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, born 1975
Sergio Calderón
American actor (1945–2023)

Notable Calderons come mostly from Argentina (3), the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1) and the United States (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Calderon

Calderon has the Soundex code C436, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C436.

Other Spanish surnames

All 992 Spanish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Calderon come from?: Calderon is Spanish in origin.
How common is the surname Calderon?: 77,085 people in the United States had the surname Calderon in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 4,005 Americans. It ranked 421st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Calderon?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Calderon identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 5.0% as white (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Calderon?: Gabriel Calderón, Argentine association football player and manager, followed by Alberto Calderón.
Where is the surname Calderon most common?: Wikidata records people named Calderon in Argentina, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United States and 1 other country.
Is the surname Calderon getting more or less common?: More common. 54,691 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 77,085 in 2010, up 41%.