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    The surname Calica

    A Tagalog occupational surname, carried by 535 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex C420

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Calica is more common than 74.9% of them.

    Origin

    Tagalog origin

    Borrowed from Tagalog Calica, a metonymic occupational surname from Spanish caliza (“limestone”).

    Calica is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 535 people named Calica in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 577,094 Americans. That is up 17% since 2000, when the Census counted 456.

    #40,800
    rank among US surnames
    535
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +17.3%
    change since 2000 (was #44,430)

    Who is named Calica

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

    68% of people named Calica identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 11% as two or more races and 11% as white (not Hispanic).

    • Asian and Pacific Islander 68%
    • Two or more races 11%
    • White (not Hispanic) 11%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6.2%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 4.1%

    Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Calica

    Calica has the Soundex code C420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C420.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Calica come from?
    Borrowed from Tagalog Calica, a metonymic occupational surname from Spanish caliza (“limestone”).
    How common is the surname Calica?
    535 people in the United States had the surname Calica in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 577,094 Americans. It ranked 40,800th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Calica?
    In the 2010 Census, 68% of people named Calica identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 11% as two or more races.
    What type of surname is Calica?
    Calica is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
    Is the surname Calica getting more or less common?
    More common. 456 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 535 in 2010, up 17%.