Keresi

surname · Latin script

Meaning: third-person singular indicative present definite of keres

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Keresi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kenya than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 192K(measured from records)
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 351K
  • KEKenya≈1 in 390K

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.

Kenya (inferred from the name graph)

≈140 people, est.

Sources
30 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 192K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

third-person singular indicative present definite of keres

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Keresi 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.

Where Keresi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
KE Kenya≈140 est.≈1 in 390K—Keresi4
US United States≈44 est.≈1 in 7.6MlistedKeresi30
DE Germany≈35 est.≈1 in 2.3M—Keresi21
HR Croatia221 in 192K22——
GB United Kingdom≈6 est.≈1 in 12M—Keresi13
AU Australia≈5 est.≈1 in 5.1M—Keresi8
EE Estonia≈4 est.≈1 in 351Klisted—1

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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Keresi is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hungarian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Hungary, United Kingdom, Serbia

    Also written Kereši

  • Croatian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Serbia

    Also written Kereši

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Kereši

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Kereši

19 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Keresi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Keresi mean, and where does it come from?
third-person singular indicative present definite of keres Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Keresi have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 137 people named Keresi in Kenya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled keresi.
Where is Keresi most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Keresi is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 192 thousand people — even though Kenya holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Keresi?
In Croatia, the national register counted 22 people named Keresi in 2021, about 1 in 192 thousand residents.

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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, “Keresi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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