Keleş
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a bald person
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Keleş is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 98th most common surname.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 910(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 10K
- DEGermany≈1 in 46K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Keleş itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 124 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 910 (inferred from the name graph)
≈90,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
a bald person
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Keleş 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #98 | ≈90,000 est. | ≈1 in 910 | — | Keleş | 99 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Keleş | 6 |
| US United States | — | 1,778as Kells | 1 in 187K | 1.8K | Keleş | 82 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 46K | listed | Keleş | 103 |
| FR France | — | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 121K | 124 | Keleş | 124 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Keleş | 30 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Keleş | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 376 | 1 in 22K | 376 | Keleş | 15 |
| CY Cyprus | #157 | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Keleş | 7 |
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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Keleş is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, 1. Güzel, yakışıklı kimse. 2. Yiğit, cesur, bahadır.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In Kurdish, robber
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hakan Keleşb. 1972TRTurkish association football player (born 1972)
- Ergin Keleşb. 1987TRTurkish association football player (born 1987)
- Ersan Keleşb. 1987TRTurkish futsal player (born 1987)
- İsmail Keleşb. 1988TRTurkish sport shooter (born 1988)
- Kadir Keleşb. 1988TRTurkish association football player (born 1988)
- Fatih Keleşb. 1989TRTurkish boxer (born 1989)
- Fatih Keleşb. 1993TRTurkish cyclist (born 1993)
- Eren Keleşb. 1994ATTurkish association football player (born 1994)
- Enes Keleşb. 1997TRTurkish association football player (born 1997)
- Can Kelesb. 2001ATTurkish-Austrian association football player (born 2001)
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 6 sources across 2 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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 Keleş mean, and where does it come from?
- a bald person Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Keleş have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 90 thousand people named Keleş in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled keleş.
- How common is the name Keleş?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 376 people named Keleş in 2024, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
- How common is Keleş compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Keleş is the 98th most common surname of 619,652 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, “Keleş” — the 98th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.