Pekelis
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pekelis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 6.4M(measured from records)
- RURussia≈1 in 2Mas Пекелис
- UAUkraine≈1 in 3.1Mas Пекеліс
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 Pekelis 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 62 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.4M (inferred from the name graph)
≈70 named Пекелис, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Пекелис in RU Russia, TR Türkiye, IL Israel and Пекеліс in UA Ukraine.
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.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pekelis 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.
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
- Mikhail Pekelisb. 1899UASoviet musicologist
- Carla Pekelisb. 1907writer
- Viktoras Pekelisb. 1921RURussian children's writer (1921-1997)
- Rosselle Pekelisb. 1938FRformer Washington Supreme Court judge
- Alisa Samoilovna PekelisRUPh.D. Ural State University 1959
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 2 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #235,736 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #378,283 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Pekelis have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 70 people named Пекелис in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Pekelis most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pekelis is densest in Poland — about 1 in 6.4 million people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pekelis?
- In Poland, the national register counted 6 people named Pekelis in 2026, about 1 in 6.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Pekelis?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pekelisThe 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, “Pekelis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.