Kolli
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kolli is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 109K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.2Kas Kelly
- EEEstonia≈1 in 58K
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 Kolli 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 58K (inferred from the name graph)
267,394 named Kelly, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kella in PK Pakistan.
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.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kolli 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 | 12,214 | 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 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 58K | 19 | — | — |
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; 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; Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)
Kolli is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Icelandic, indefinite dative singular of kollur
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, A piece of luggage or freight.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, tomcat (male cat)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Luxembourgish, collar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- K. V. Raghunatha Reddyb. 1924not in their usual namepolitician
- Ivy Kollib. 1996GHGhanaian association football player
- Rayan Kollib. 2005GDGrenadian footballer
- K. Srinath ReddyINnot in their usual nameIndian cardiologist
- Sree KolliUSresearcher (ORCID 0000-0002-3824-8031)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 13 countries.
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
- In which country does Kolli 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 Kolli?
- In India, the national register counted 12,214 people named Kolli, about 1 in 109 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kolli?
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/kolliThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Kolli”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.