Kališ
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: JÚĽŠ SAV, 1995
/kalɪʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kališ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: 3. Hungarian: from a pet form of the Hungarian personal name Kalman.
- SKSlovakia1 in 23K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 28K
- NLNetherlands1 in 40K
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)
- Record sources
- 29 (measured from records)
- 1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
1,125 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovakia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kalis in US United States, NL Netherlands, SK Slovakia and 1 more.
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)3. Hungarian: from a pet form of the Hungarian personal name Kalman.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kališ 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,125 | 1 in 296K | 1.1K | Kalis | 29 |
| NL Netherlands | 427 | 1 in 40K | 427 | Kalis | 5 |
| CZ Czechia | 383 | 1 in 28K | 384 | Kališ | 27 |
| SK Slovakia | 236 | 1 in 23K | 236 | Kalis | 28 |
| PL Poland | 164 | 1 in 233K | 89 | Kalis | 28 |
1,125 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Kališ is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Serbo-Croatian, second-person singular present of káliti
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jan Kališb. 1930CZCzech cinematographer (1930-2003)
- Frantisek Kalisb. 1953CZCzechoslovak cyclist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 384 | #3,637 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 383 | #4,156 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 236 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kališ mean, and where does it come from?
- 3. Hungarian: from a pet form of the Hungarian personal name Kalman. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames).
- How do you pronounce Kališ?
- A machine transcription gives /kalɪʃ/ (IPA) for Czech.
- In which country does Kališ have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Kališ, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kalis.
- Where is Kališ most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kališ is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 23 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kališ?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,125 people named Kališ in 2010, about 1 in 296 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kališ?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kali%C5%A1The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Kališ”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.