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The Calzada surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 5,022 people carried this name — #6,724 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 58,800 people counted. That is up 39% from 3,607 in 2000.

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Where the name comes from

The origin of the Calzada surname

Borrowed from Spanish Calzada, from calzada.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Calzada» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In Argentina’s national register

At least 730 people named Calzada live in Argentina.

RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they live today

Buenos Aires Province 372
Santa Fe 121
City of Buenos Aires 85
Córdoba 44
Entre Ríos 38
Mendoza 34
La Pampa 22
Río Negro 14

RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.

In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 65 people named Calzada.

28 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 14 départements, most often Pas-de-Calais.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they were born

Born outside France 28
Pas-de-Calais 5
Gers 4
Hautes-Pyrénées 3
Puy-de-Dôme 3
Nièvre 3
Isère 3
Hérault 3
Haute-Garonne 3

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In print

Calzada in American newspapers,
1844–1898.

Newspaper page from Jeffersonian carrying the name Calzada
Jeffersonian 1844-06-15
Newspaper page from Weekly Union carrying the name Calzada
Weekly Union 1898-12-21
Newspaper page from Los Angeles Daily Herald carrying the name Calzada
Los Angeles Daily Herald 1888-03-29

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 4,103 pages in all carry the name.

Who carried it

People named Calzada,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Rafael Calzada Fernández
    Rafael Calzada Fernández 1854–1929 · writer
  • Josep Calzada i Carbó
    Josep Calzada i Carbó 1878–1965 · poet
  • Antonio Calzada Urquiza
    Antonio Calzada Urquiza 1930–2019 · diplomat
  • Karl von Calzada 1824– · painter
  • Ramon Calzada Roura 1843–1907 · presbyter
  • Eusebio Calzada 1870–2000 · military personnel

Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

When the index is not enough

This page says where Calzada is.
A volume says what happened to it.

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