Kneis
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/naɪs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kneis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 325K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 534K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.7M
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
- 31 (measured from records)
- 1 in 325K (inferred from the name graph)
128 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Kneis 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 | 128 | 1 in 2.6M | 128 | Kneis | 6 |
| HR Croatia | 13 | 1 in 325K | 13 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 11 | 1 in 534K | 11 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 5 | 1 in 1.7M | 5 | — | — |
| FR France | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 23M | 3 | Kneis | 31 |
| CZ Czechia | 3 | 1 in 3.6M | 3 | — | — |
128 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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 128 | #132,206 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 123 | #139,785 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 13 | #28,335 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 12 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 11 | #37,264 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 6 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 4 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 3 | #161,375 |
Reference works 2
- 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
- How do you pronounce Kneis?
- A machine transcription gives /naɪs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kneis have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 128 people named Kneis, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kneis.
- Where is Kneis most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kneis is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 325 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kneis?
- In the United States, the national register counted 128 people named Kneis in 2010, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Kneis?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kneisThe 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, “Kneis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.