Kelin
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɛlin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kelin is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: bride; daughter-in-law.
- HNHonduras≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 77K
- BRBrazil1 in 128K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 94 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Honduras, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
bride; daughter-in-law
Sources 1
- Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kelin 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 186K | — | Kelin | 32 |
| HN Honduras | #216 | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Kelin | 17 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,649 | 1 in 128K | 1.8K | Kelin | 49 |
| US United States | — | 1,269 | 1 in 262K | 749 | Kelin | 94 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Kelin | 12 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Kelin | 27 |
| SV El Salvador | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Kelin | 10 |
| NI Nicaragua | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Kelin | 5 |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)
Kelin is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In vep, essive-instructive plural of kel'
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, genitive singular of keli
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Uzbek, daughter-in-law
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In crh, bride
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In otk, bride; daughter-in-law
as a wordClauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
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)
- Seymour "Red" Kelinb. 1927USAmerican football coach
- Vladimir Kelinb. 1936RUSoviet Russian actor and singer (1936–2013)
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 36 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.8K | #6,378 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 1.7K | #3,093 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 1.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.6K | #5,859 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 1.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 1.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 761 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 749 | #10,484 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 602 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 537 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 520 | #10,484 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 279 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- What does the name Kelin mean, and where does it come from?
- bride; daughter-in-law Recorded by Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972).
- How do you pronounce Kelin?
- A machine transcription gives /kɛlin/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Kelin a male or female name?
- Kelin is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Kelin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.5 thousand people named Kelin in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kelin.
- How common is the name Kelin?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,649 people named Kelin in 2022, about 1 in 128 thousand residents.
- How common is Kelin compared with other names?
- In Honduras, Kelin is the 216th most common given name of 23,588 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kelin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kelinThe 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, “Kelin” — the 216th most common given name in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.