Calvo

See also: calvo

Galician

Etymology

From calvo (“bald”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɑlβʊ]

Proper noun

Calvo ?

1. a surname

Related terms

• Calviño

References

• “Calvo” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “Calvo”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkal.vo/
• Rhymes: -alvo
• Hyphenation: Càl‧vo

Proper noun

Calvo m or f by sense

1. a surname

Anagrams

• valco, valcò

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkaw.vu/ [ˈkaʊ̯.vu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkaw.vu/ [ˈkaʊ̯.vu]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkaw.vo/ [ˈkaʊ̯.vo]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkal.vu/ [ˈkaɫ.vu]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkal.vu/ [ˈkaɫ.vu]
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkal.bu/ [ˈkaɫ.βu]

• Homophone: calvo
• Hyphenation: Cal‧vo

Proper noun

Calvo m (plural Calvos, feminine Calva, feminine plural Calvas)

1. a male given name, feminine equivalent Calva

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkalbo/ [ˈkal.β̞o]
• Rhymes: -albo
• Syllabification: Cal‧vo

Proper noun

Calvo m or f by sense

1. a surname

Statistics

According to official data by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística in 2016, Calvo occurs in Spain as a first surname by 69.570 individuals, and as a second surname by 70.064 individuals. It is prevalent in Zamora, Palencia, Soria, Salamanca, Burgos, La Rioja and Valladolid.