Çalis

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

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

  • NLNetherlands1 in 20K(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium1 in 49K
  • NONorway1 in 57K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Netherlands (measured from records)

878 people, 2007

Record sources
9 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Calis in NL Netherlands, US United States.

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 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Çalis 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 Çalis is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands8781 in 20K878Calis4
BE Belgium2371 in 49K241—3
BR Brazil2301 in 921K230——
US United States1461 in 2.3M246Calis9
NO Norway961 in 57K96——
FI Finland331 in 169K33——
DK Denmark321 in 183K32——

878 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

Çalis is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Polish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Netherlands

    Also written Calis, Çaliş

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Caliş, Cális, Čališ, Çaliş, Ćališ

4 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.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
19201940196019802000Orhan Çalış, b. 1929Hasan Çalış, b. 1956Taşkın Çalış, b. 1993
  • Orhan Çalışb. 1929TRnot in their usual nameTurkish statesperson (1929–1991)
  • Hasan Çalışb. 1956TRnot in their usual nameTurkish statesperson (born 1956)
  • Taşkın Çalışb. 1993DEnot in their usual nameTurkish association football player (born 1993)
  • İhsan Efe ÇalışTRnot in their usual nameassociation football player

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)

3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.

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

What are other forms of the name Çalis?
In the etymology graph, Çalış is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Çalis have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 878 people named Çalis, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled calis.
Where is Çalis most common?
Çalis is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 20 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Çalis?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 878 people named Çalis in 2007, about 1 in 20 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, “Çalis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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