Káles

surname · Latin script

Káles is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from a vernacular form of the Latin personal name Calixtus (see Kalista).

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 402K(measured from records)
  • CZCzechia1 in 595K
  • USUnited States1 in 1.3M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

265 people, 2010

Sources
7 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 402K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kales in US United States, CZ Czechia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from a vernacular form of the Latin personal name Calixtus (see Kalista).

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Káles counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Káles is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2651 in 1.3M265Kales6
NL Netherlands431 in 402K43——
BR Brazil261 in 8.1M26——
CZ Czechia181 in 595K18Kales7
IN India161 in 83M16——

265 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); MVČR — living population register 2017; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Káles is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Türkiye, Germany, Greece

    Languages: English, Turkish, Greek

    Also written Kales, Kaleş, Kalis, Cales, Καλης

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Káles
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—18#56,281

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Káles mean, and where does it come from?
from a vernacular form of the Latin personal name Calixtus (see Kalista). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Káles have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 265 people named Káles, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kales.
Where is Káles most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Káles is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 402 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Káles?
In the United States, the national register counted 265 people named Káles in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Káles”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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