Karniš
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/karɲiʃ/(machine-generated) Slovak · model-generated
Karniš is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: »1° cijev za čibuk ili lulu, 2° čibuk«.
- HRCroatia1 in 74K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 1.3M
- PLPoland1 in 19M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- 1 in 74K (inferred from the name graph)
57 people, 2021
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)»1° cijev za čibuk ili lulu, 2° čibuk«
Cited for this meaning 1
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Karniš 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | 57 | 1 in 74K | 57 | Karniš | 17 |
| CZ Czechia | 8 | 1 in 1.3M | 8 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | 127 | — | — |
57 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; MVČR — living population register 2017; 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 57 | #12,200 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 55 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 8 | #91,603 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #342,983 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Karniš mean, and where does it come from?
- »1° cijev za čibuk ili lulu, 2° čibuk« Recorded by Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74).
- How do you pronounce Karniš?
- It depends on the language: in Slovak /karɲiʃ/; in Czech /karɲɪʃ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Karniš have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 57 people named Karniš, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled karniš.
- Where is Karniš most common?
- Karniš is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 74 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Karniš?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 57 people named Karniš in 2021, about 1 in 74 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Karniš?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/karni%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, “Karniš”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.