Karvelis
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Plg. lenk. Kamicki (SSNO II 542)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɑɹvəɫɪs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Karvelis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Lithuania than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.9M(measured from records)
- LTLithuania≈1 in 8.3K
- GRGreece≈1 in 183K
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.
- Lithuania (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 99 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈330 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Lithuania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Καρβελης 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)
Plg. lenk. Kamicki (SSNO II 542)
Sources 1
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Karvelis 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LT Lithuania | #709 | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | — | Karvelis | 40 |
| US United States | — | 114 | 1 in 2.9M | 114 | Karvelis | 99 |
| GR Greece | — | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 183K | 6 | Καρβελης | 28 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 547K | — | Karvelis | 26 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Karvelis | 12 |
| NO Norway | — | 20 | 1 in 273K | 20 | — | 2 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 430K | — | Karvelis | 1 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 351K | listed | — | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Karvelis is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Nārvelis, Abula pieteka
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)
- Petras Karvelisb. 1897LTLithuanian politician
- Vladas Karvelisb. 1901LTLithuanian military personnel (1902-1980)
- Vytautas Karvelisb. 1933LTLithuanian psychologist (1933-2011)
- Juozas Karvelisb. 1934LTLithuanian politician (1934-2018)
- Ugnė Karvelisb. 1935LTLithuanian writer (1935–2002)
- Vytautas Karvelisb. 1972LTLithuanian association football player
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 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 114 | #145,220 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 114 | #135,837 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 107 | #151,639 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 20 | #41,719 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- What does the name Karvelis mean, and where does it come from?
- Plg. lenk. Kamicki (SSNO II 542) Recorded by Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames).
- How do you pronounce Karvelis?
- A machine transcription gives /kɑɹvəɫɪs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Karvelis have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 331 people named Karvelis in Lithuania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled karvelis.
- How common is the name Karvelis?
- In the United States, the national register counted 114 people named Karvelis in 2010, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.
- How common is Karvelis compared with other names?
- In Lithuania, Karvelis is the 709th most common surname of 43,479 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/karvelisThe 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, “Karvelis” — the 709th most common surname in Lithuania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.