Keleman
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Altered spelhng of Hungarian Kelemen (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
Keleman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 280 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- SISlovenia1 in 40K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 221K
- HRCroatia1 in 235K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 125 (measured from records)
- 1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
280 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Altered spelhng of Hungarian Kelemen.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Keleman is found
(measured from records)Keleman 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 280 | 1 in 1.2M | 288 | Keleman | 125 |
| SS South Sudan | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Keleman | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Keleman | 22 |
| BE Belgium | 53 | 1 in 221K | 53 | Keleman | 10 |
| SI Slovenia | 52 | 1 in 40K | 52 | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 20 | 1 in 535K | 20 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | 18 | 1 in 235K | 19 | — | — |
280 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2000; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); MVČR — living population register 2017; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021). 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Keleman mean, and where does it come from?
- Altered spelhng of Hungarian Kelemen. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Keleman?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 280 people named Keleman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled keleman. After it come South Sudan, United Kingdom, Belgium and Slovenia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Keleman most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Keleman is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 40 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Keleman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 280 people named Keleman in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kelemanThe 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, “Keleman” — ranked 64572nd in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.