Kelys
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/keljs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kelys is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country.
- VEVenezuela1 in 44K(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 96K
- PAPanama≈1 in 189K
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.
- Venezuela (measured from records)
- Sources
- 29 (measured from records)
- 1 in 44K (inferred from the name graph)
657 people
Highest-authority source
Venezuela
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Galbūt pravardinė pvd., sietina su liet. kelfs, kėlis „šlaunies ir blauzdos kaulų susijungimo vieta“ (LKŽ V 521).
Sources 1
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kelys 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.
657 people counted by asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996). 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: asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). 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)
Kelys 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 Lithuanian, Galbūt pravardinė pvd., sietina su liet. kelfs, kėlis „šlaunies ir blauzdos kaulų susijungimo vieta“ (LKŽ V 521).
as a wordVanagas, Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 657 | #2,189 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 87 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 66 | #45,476 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 66 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 50 | #34,756 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 45 | #50,095 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 35 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 31 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 22 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 21 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 21 | #45,476 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 13 | — |
Reference works 1
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
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 Kelys?
- A machine transcription gives /keljs/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Kelys a male or female name?
- Kelys is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Kelys have the most bearers?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted about 657 people named Kelys, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kelys.
- Where is Kelys most common?
- Kelys is densest in Venezuela, where the national register counts about 1 in 44 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kelys?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted 657 people named Kelys, about 1 in 44 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kelysThe 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, “Kelys”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.