Kakiş

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 1.4M(measured from records)
  • SYSyria≈1 in 1.6M
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 1.7M

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.

Syria (inferred from the name graph)

≈12 people, est.

Sources
12 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.4M (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kakis in TR Türkiye.

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)

recorded in Lithuanian

Vienu kitu atveju gali būti ir suslavinta iš Kaktys (žr.) ar pan. Bet dažniausiai, matyt, sietina su Chachlauskas (žr.) : lenk. Chochlomki (SSNO I 320), rus. Хохловский (САМС IV 599)

Sources 1

  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kakiş 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 Kakiş is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SY Syria≈12 est.≈1 in 1.6M—Kakiş2
TR Türkiye≈5 est.≈1 in 17M—Kakis12
CH Switzerland51 in 1.7M5—2
NO Norway41 in 1.4M4——
SE Sweden——1——

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); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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)

Kakiş is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Kakis

  • Russian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia

    Also written Kakis, Какис

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Kakis

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Kakis

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Latvia

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Kakis

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Kakis

2 further groups 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)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Kakiş under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Kakiş have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 12 people named Kakiş in Syria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kakiş.
Where is Kakiş most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kakiş is densest in Norway — about 1 in 1.4 million people — even though Syria holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Kakiş?
In Switzerland, the national register counted 5 people named Kakiş in 2024, about 1 in 1.7 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, “Kakiş”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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