Käll
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
/ɕɛl̪/(machine-generated) Swedish · model-generated
Käll is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 7.4K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 31K
- DEGermany≈1 in 100K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 201 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.4K (inferred from the name graph)
1,384 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Kall in US United States, DE Germany, PL Poland 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Käll 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | #734 | 1,384 | 1 in 7.4K | 1.4K | Käll | 35 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Kall | 74 |
| US United States | — | 591 | 1 in 563K | 699 | Kall | 201 |
| FI Finland | — | 177 | 1 in 31K | 177 | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | — | 158 | 1 in 242K | 80 | Kall | 1 |
| DK Denmark | — | 35 | 1 in 168K | 35 | — | 1 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 35K | listed | Kall | 5 |
1,384 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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 2000; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Lars Källb. 1933SESwedish sailor
- Stig Källb. 1938SESwedish sailor
- Stefan Källb. 1962SESwedish politician
- Lukas KällSEresearcher
- Jenny KällSESwedish suffragist
- Jacob KällSESwedish local politician
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.4K | #732 |
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
- How do you pronounce Käll?
- In Swedish /ɕɛl̪/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Käll have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Käll, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled käll.
- Where is Käll most common?
- Käll is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Käll?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 1,384 people named Käll, about 1 in 7.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Käll compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Käll is the 734th most common surname of 187,334 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Käll?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%A4llThe 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, “Käll” — the 734th most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.