as a Last Name
- 52,966
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Calderon
Meaning & Origins
Spanish (Calderón): topographic name from an augmentative of caldera ‘basin’, ‘crater’, ‘hollow’, a common element of stream and mountain names, or a habitational name from a place named with this word, as for example Calderón in Valencia province. Alternatively, it may be a metonymic occupational name from the same word in the sense ‘kettle’, ‘cauldron’.
| 652nd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 52,966
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Puerto Rico
- has the most people named Calderon per capita
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