Kalisz
loc · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from Kalisz in west central Poland, which probably derives its name from Old Polish kal ‘muddy place’, ‘slough’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kalisz is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Poland.
- PLPoland
- FRFrance
- NLNetherlands
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Kaliszin(measured from records)
- Old Polishkal(measured from records)
habitational name from Kalisz in west central Poland, which probably derives its name from Old Polish kal ‘muddy place’, ‘slough’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kalisz is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Polish, Kalisz (a city in Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, prov, Poland
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Polish, from the town of Kalisz in W central Poland, which prob¬ ably derives its name from OPol. kal muddy place, slough (see Kaeuza) . nitz(er), Kaminitzki, Kaminitzky, Kaminitski, Kaminitsky, Kamin(i)ecki, Kamenetzky, Kamenetski, Kamenetsky, Kami(on)ner; Kamenka, Kami(o)nka, Kaminker; Kaminkovski, Kaminovsky. (Of 1 only): Czech: Kamenar, Kamenik. Russ.: Kamenshchikov (patr.).
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
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)
- Jacques Kaliszb. 1926FRFrench architect (1926-2002)
- Jadwiga Złotorzyckab. 1926PLnot in their usual namePolish entomologist (1926-2002)
- Raymond Kaliszb. 1927USCatholic bishop (1927–2010)
- Henryk Kaliszb. 1929PLPolish civil engineer
- Józef Kaliszb. 1947PLPolish politician and deputy
- Edward Kaliszb. 1951PLPolish actor (1951-2017)
- Ryszard Kaliszb. 1957PLPolish politician
- Marcin Kaliszb. 1981PLPolish actor
- Chase Kaliszb. 1994USAmerican swimmer
- Waldemar KaliszPLPolish child actor
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3.5K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3.5K | #649 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3.5K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3.5K | #647 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 551 | #42,381 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 541 | #38,464 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 424 | #49,546 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 35 | #134,170 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 31 | #40,951 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 25 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 22 | #45,076 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 21 | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Kalisz mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from Kalisz in west central Poland, which probably derives its name from Old Polish kal ‘muddy place’, ‘slough’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Kalisz have the most bearers?
- Kalisz is most frequently recorded in Poland.
What do you want to know about Kalisz?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kaliszThe 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, “Kalisz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.