Kella
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkɛɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kella is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.2Kas Kelly(measured from records)
- INIndia1 in 109Kas Kolli
- PKPakistan≈1 in 524K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kella itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 194 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 524K (inferred from the name graph)
267,394 named Kelly, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kolli in US United States, IN India.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kella 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 | 267,394as Kelly | 1 in 1.2K | 438K | Kolli | 194 |
| IN India | 12,214as Kolli | 1 in 109K | 12K | Kolli | 121 |
| AR Argentina | 1,267as Kelly | 1 in 36K | 1.3K | — | — |
| ES Spain | 992as Kelly | 1 in 50K | 992 | — | 1 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 524K | — | Kella | 8 |
| DK Denmark | 246as Kelly | 1 in 24K | 246 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 234as Kelly | 1 in 23K | 654 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 205as Kelly | 1 in 27K | 281 | — | 3 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 191as Kelly | 1 in 282 | 191 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 44 | 1 in 4.8M | 119K | — | — |
267,394 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling kelly. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Marjaana Kellab. 1961FIFinnish photographer (born 1961)
- Kaisa Kellab. 1970FIFinnish figure skater
- Offer KellaUSPh.D. Stanford University 1987
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 32 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 6.5K | #404 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 2.9K | #2,325 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 157 | #117,309 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 132 | #129,047 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 121 | #129,619 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 51 | #22,336 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 44 | #114,634 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 26 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 14 | #101,339 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Kella?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɛɫə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Kella have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 267 thousand people named Kelly, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kella?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 44 people named Kella, about 1 in 4.8 million residents.
What do you want to know about Kella?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kellaThe 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, “Kella”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.