Karalis
surname · Latin script
Meaning: l.from the Turkish personal name Kara AH ‘Black (or Moody) Ali’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kəɹəlɪs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Karalis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 722K(measured from records)
- GRGreece≈1 in 39K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 121K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 172 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,100 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Greece, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Καραλης in GR Greece.
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)
l.from the Turkish personal name Kara AH ‘Black (or Moody) Ali’. 2. from the Slavic personal name Krai ‘king’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Karalis 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 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 447K | — | Karalis | 1 |
| US United States | 461 | 1 in 722K | 477 | Karalis | 172 |
| GR Greece | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 13 | Καραλης | 56 |
| AU Australia | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 199K | — | Karalis | 53 |
| DE Germany | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 787K | — | Karalis | 37 |
| MA Morocco | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 354K | — | Karalis | 1 |
| IE Ireland | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 400K | — | Karalis | 2 |
| CY Cyprus | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 121K | — | Karalis | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers). 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)
Karalis 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 Latvian, king (the monarch of a kingdom; the title of this monarch)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Šaha figūra, kuru zaudējot spēlētājs zaudē partiju
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Monarhs; šī monarha tituls
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Panagiotis Karalisb. 1892GRGreek politician
- Tom Karalisb. 1964CACanadian ice hockey defenceman
- Ioannis Karalisb. 1988GRGreek footballer
- Emmanouíl Karalísb. 1999GRGreek male pole vaulter
- Elina Karalisresearcher
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 477 | #47,869 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 471 | #43,232 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 461 | #46,219 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- 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
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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
- Where does the name Karalis come from?
- l.from the Turkish personal name Kara AH ‘Black (or Moody) Ali’. 2. from the Slavic personal name Krai ‘king’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Karalis?
- A machine transcription gives /kəɹəlɪs/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Karalis mean?
- Recorded meaning: l.from the Turkish personal name Kara AH ‘Black (or Moody) Ali’.
- In which country does Karalis have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.1 thousand people named Karalis in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled karalis.
- How common is the name Karalis?
- In the United States, the national register counted 461 people named Karalis in 2010, about 1 in 722 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/karalisThe 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, “Karalis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.