Keliš
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
Keliš is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 45K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 178K
- CZCzechia1 in 396K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Keliš itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 12 (measured from records)
- 1 in 45K (inferred from the name graph)
674 named Kellis, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Kelis in US United States.
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)Klaipėdos Kelis gali būti ir germanizmas, plg. vok. Kehl (M. Gottschald, 1954, p. 364). O dėl Panevėžio Kelio plg. liet. Kelys (žr.). KEL?S Jnš. Galbūt pravardinė pvd., sietina su liet. kel$s, kelis „šlaunies ir blauzdos kaulų susijungimo vieta“ (LKŽ V 521)
Cited for this meaning 1
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Keliš is found
(measured from records)Keliš 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 | 674as Kellis | 1 in 494K | 2K | Kelis | 4 |
| HR Croatia | 93 | 1 in 45K | 93 | Keliš | 12 |
| CZ Czechia | 27 | 1 in 396K | 27 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 19 | 1 in 178K | 19 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 18as Kellis | 1 in 2.5M | 18 | — | — |
674 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling kellis. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); MVČR — living population register 2017; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Keliš?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 674 people named Kellis, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Croatia, Czechia, Uruguay and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Keliš most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Keliš is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 45 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Keliš?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 93 people named Keliš in 2021, about 1 in 45 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/keli%C5%A1The 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, “Keliš”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.