Holeš

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021

/ˈɦolɛʃ/(recorded in a dictionary) Czech · from Wiktionary

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Holeš is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 327 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: Various origins: * Variant of English Hole. * Borrowed from Slovak Holeš or Czech Holeš.

  • SKSlovakia1 in 28K(measured from records)
  • CZCzechia1 in 34K
  • HRCroatia1 in 108K

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.

United States (measured from records)

327 people, 2010

Record sources
20 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovakia

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:

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.

How to pronounce Holeš

  • Czech:/ˈɦolɛʃ/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
  • Slovak:/ˈɦɔʎeʃ/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

Various origins: * Variant of English Hole. * Borrowed from Slovak Holeš or Czech Holeš.

Cited for this meaning 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Holeš is found

(measured from records)

Holeš 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 Holeš is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3271 in 1M371—2
CZ Czechia3151 in 34K316Holeš20
SK Slovakia1971 in 28K197Holeš13
BR Brazil481 in 4.4M48——
HR Croatia391 in 108K39——

327 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)

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

  • Croatian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia

    Also written Holes

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Holes

  • English surname11 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, Spanish, German

    Also written Holes, Holës, Holés

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

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)

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)
FormalPoštovani Holeš,Dear Holeš, (English)
InformalPoštovani Holeš,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Holeš mean, and where does it come from?
Various origins: * Variant of English Hole. * Borrowed from Slovak Holeš or Czech Holeš. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 1 other source.
How do you pronounce Holeš?
It depends on the language: in Czech /ˈɦolɛʃ/ (Wiktionary); in Slovak /ˈɦɔʎeʃ/ (Wiktionary).
Which countries have the most people with the surname Holeš?
In the United States, the national register counted about 327 people named Holeš, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Czechia, Slovakia, Brazil and Croatia; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Holeš most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Holeš is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 28 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Holeš?
In the United States, the national register counted 327 people named Holeš in 2010, about 1 in 1.0 million 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, “Holeš” — ranked 52500th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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