Kereš

surname · Latin script

Kereš is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country: 134 people, counted by DZS in 2021. Kereš is also written Кереш in Cyrillic.

  • HRCroatia1 in 32K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 186K
  • NONorway1 in 1.4M

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.

Croatia (measured from records)

134 people, 2021

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
15 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Kereš in other scripts: Cyrillic

(measured from records)
KerešLatin(measured from records)
КерешKereš in Cyrillic(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.

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

  • Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Kereš is found

(measured from records)

Kereš 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 Kereš is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia1341 in 32K134Kereš15
US United States1061 in 3.1M117—1
BR Brazil751 in 2.8M75——
FI Finland301 in 186K30——
RS Serbia≈27 est.≈1 in 242K—Kereš5
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina≈17 est.≈1 in 191K—Kereš4
NO Norway41 in 1.4M4——

134 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)

Kereš is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Slovak surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia

    Also written Keres

  • English surname9 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Swahili

    Also written Keres, Kereş

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Keres

  • Portuguese surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Argentina

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Keres, Kéres

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)

3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.

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

Frequently asked questions

Which countries have the most people with the surname Kereš?
In Croatia, the national register counted about 134 people named Kereš, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kereš. After it come United States, Brazil, Finland and Serbia; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Kereš most common?
Kereš is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 32 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Kereš?
In Croatia, the national register counted 134 people named Kereš in 2021, about 1 in 32 thousand 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, “Kereš” — ranked 6125th in Croatia (DZS, 2021). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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