Kilić

surname · Latin script

Kilić is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Turkish Kılıç.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye1 in 182(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 4.9K
  • NLNetherlands1 in 10K

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.

Türkiye (measured from records)

450,572 people, 2025

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
22 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 182 (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KilićLatin(measured from records)
КиличCyrillic(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kilic in NL Netherlands, US United States, CH Switzerland and Kiliç in TR Türkiye, BG Bulgaria.

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)

Derivation of Kilić: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Kilić
  1. TurkishKılıç(measured from records)
  2. Ottoman Turkishقلجkılıc(inferred from the name graph)via Kılıç
  3. Proto-Turkic*kïlï̄č“sword”(inferred from the name graph)via Kılıç

Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.

Borrowed from Turkish Kılıç.

Sources 1

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kilić 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 Kilić is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye—450,5721 in 182451KKiliç10
NL Netherlands—1,7061 in 10K1.7KKilic4
DK Denmark—1,1961 in 4.9K1.2K——
US United States—5731 in 581K824Kilic4
CH Switzerland—5141 in 16K514Kilic5
SE Sweden—4701 in 22K470—1
BG Bulgaria#748———Kiliç22

450,572 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used surnames, 2025. 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: TÜİK NIP — most used surnames; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)

Kilić is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Kilic, Kiliç, Kiliĉ

  • German surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Türkiye, United States, Austria

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Kilic, Kiliç

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Türkiye, United Kingdom

    Also written Kilic, Kiliç

  • Spanish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Netherlands, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Kilic, Kiliç, Kïlïç

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 4 sources across 2 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

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 Kilić mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Turkish Kılıç. Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Kilić have the most bearers?
In Türkiye, the national register counted about 451 thousand people named Kilić, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kiliç.
Where is Kilić most common?
Kilić is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 182 people carrying it.
How common is the name Kilić?
In Türkiye, the national register counted 450,572 people named Kilić in 2025, about 1 in 182 residents.
How common is Kilić compared with other names?
In Bulgaria, Kilić is the 748th most common surname of 67,606 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Kilić” — the 748th most common surname in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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