Keleš

Name: Keleš: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-10

surname · Latin script

Keleš is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.

rarermore common

CHSwitzerland1 in 22K(measured from records)
BEBelgium1 in 94K
SESweden1 in 103K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Keleš 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.

: Switzerland (measured from records)
: 2 (measured from records)
Sources: 11 (measured from records)
: 1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KelešLatin

КелесCyrillic

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Keleş

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.

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Keleš 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 Keleš is recorded, by country
Country				Most common spelling	Sources
CH Switzerland	376	1 in 22K	376	—	2
KZ Kazakhstan	331as Келес	1 in 58K	331	—	2
BE Belgium	125	1 in 94K	125	—	1
SE Sweden	99	1 in 103K	99	—	—
NL Netherlands	82	1 in 211K	82	—	2
HR Croatia	41	1 in 103K	41	Keleš	11

376 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Kazakhs, by region of residence; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)

Keleš is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

Turkish surname58 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Türkiye, Germany, Syria, Israel
Languages: Turkish, German, Arabic
Also written Keleş, Keles, קלס, Kells, Kless

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Keleš
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
HR Croatia	DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)	2021	41	#15,236
HR Croatia	DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)	2021	36	—

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Keleš have the most bearers?: In Switzerland, the national register counted about 376 people named Keleš, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Keleš most common?: Keleš is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 22 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Keleš?: In Switzerland, the national register counted 376 people named Keleš in 2024, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.

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Query this name via API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kele%C5%A1

The same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of 2026-10-10 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, “Keleš”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)