Kellar
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Keillor
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkɛɫɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kellar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 52K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 65K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 125K
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)
- Sources
- 331 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
5,120 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
variant of Keillor.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kellar 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 | 5,120 | 1 in 65K | 5.1K | Kellar | 331 |
| CA Canada | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Kellar | 102 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 125K | — | Kellar | 74 |
| IT Italy | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 144K | — | Kellar | 5 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Kellar | 2 |
| SG Singapore | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Kellar | 2 |
| IE Ireland | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Kellar | 3 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Kellar | 1 |
5,120 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. 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)
- Harry Kellarb. 1849USAmerican magician (1849–1922)
- Mark Kellarb. 1952USAmerican football player
- Bill Kellarb. 1956USAmerican football player (born 1956)
- Scott Kellarb. 1963USAmerican football player (born 1963)
- Becky Kellarb. 1975CACanadian women's ice hockey player
- Dick KellarUSbasketball player
- Ian KellarGBresearcher
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 15 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.1K | #6,613 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.4K | #7,029 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.3K | #7,391 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
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 Kellar mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Keillor. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kellar?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɛɫɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kellar have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.1 thousand people named Kellar, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kellar.
- How common is the name Kellar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,120 people named Kellar in 2010, about 1 in 65 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kellarThe 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, “Kellar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.