Kareš

surname · Latin script

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

Kareš is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Czech; from Kara or Kara, derivatives of the personal name Karel, Czech form of Charles.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 19K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 29K
  • SKSlovakia1 in 544K

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.

Czechia (measured from records)

578 people

Sources
23 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kares in US United States.

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)

Czech; from Kara or Kara, derivatives of the personal name Karel, Czech form of Charles.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kareš 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 Kareš is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia5781 in 19K578Kareš23
US United States2191 in 1.5M251Kares15
FI Finland1911 in 29K191—1
BR Brazil801 in 2.6M80——
ES Spain121 in 4.2M12——
SK Slovakia101 in 544K10Kareš2
CH Switzerland41 in 2.1M4—1

578 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • Croatian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia

    Also written Kares

  • English surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Kares

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Kares

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000František Kareš, b. 1877Miloš Kareš, b. 1891Nada Kareš Richter, b. 1926Ivo Kareš, b. 1964Eliška Karešová, b. 1987

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Kareš
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—578#2,579
SK SlovakiaJÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census)199510—

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.

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Kareš mean, and where does it come from?
Czech; from Kara or Kara, derivatives of the personal name Karel, Czech form of Charles. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Kareš have the most bearers?
In Czechia, the national register counted about 578 people named Kareš, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kareš.
Where is Kareš most common?
Kareš is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 19 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Kareš?
In Czechia, the national register counted 578 people named Kareš, about 1 in 19 thousand 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, “Kareš”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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