Calder

4,799 people in the United States were counted with the surname Calder in the 2020 census, making it the 6,753rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 62,300.

By the numbers

People: 4,799
Rank: 6,753rd
How common: 1 in 62,300
Per 100,000: 1.6

Where the name comes from

From xcb *caled (“hard”) + *duvr (“water”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Calder described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 82.6%
Black, not Hispanic 6.8%
Hispanic or Latino 4.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Calder

Alexander Calder (1898–1976)American artist
David Calder (born 1978)Canadian rower
Frank Calder (1877–1943)Canadian ice hockey administrator
David Calder (born 1946)British actor
Stephen Calder (born 1957)sailor
William M. Calder (1869–1945)American politician
Kyle Calder (1979–2026)Canadian ice hockey player
Alexander Stirling Calder (1870–1945)American artist

People named Calder with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Calder

Also a first name

Calder has been given to 2,203 American babies as a first name since 1980, peaking in 2016. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.