Kalisek

Name: Kalisek: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-10

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Kalisek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common

USUnited States1 in 1.4M(measured from records)
CVCape Verde≈1 in 16K
CZCzechia1 in 82K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: United States (measured from records)
Sources: 106 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kalisek 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 Kalisek is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
US United States	—	236	1 in 1.4M	249	Kalisek	106
ML Mali	—	≈210 est.	≈1 in 94K	—	Kalisek	1
CZ Czechia	—	130	1 in 82K	130	—	—
CU Cuba	—	≈53 est.	≈1 in 207K	—	Kalisek	1
GB United Kingdom	—	≈41 est.	≈1 in 1.6M	—	Kalisek	6
CV Cape Verde	#808	≈36 est.	≈1 in 16K	—	Kalisek	2

236 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; MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)

Kalisek is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

Czech surname5 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, United States, China
Languages: Czech, Slovak
Also written Kalíšek, Kališek
a separate name2 spellings in the group
Also written Kalíšek
Croatian surname4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States
Also written Kališek

22 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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 5 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Kalisek
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020	2020	249	#81,829
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000	2000	238	#75,466
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010	2010	236	#80,419
US United States	wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)	—	—	—

Reference works 1

Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Kalisek have the most bearers?: In the United States, the national register counted about 236 people named Kalisek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kalisek.
How common is the name Kalisek?: In the United States, the national register counted 236 people named Kalisek in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
How common is Kalisek compared with other names?: In Cape Verde, Kalisek is the 808th most common surname of 2,258 surnames recorded there.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kalisek

The 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 2026-10-10 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, “Kalisek” — the 808th most common surname in Cape Verde. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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