Kìs
surname · Latin script
Kìs is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From a Turkic language, compare to Turkish küçük and Turkmen kiçi.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 16Kas Кіш(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 273Kas Киш
- HRCroatia1 in 2.6K
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 Kìs 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
- 95 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
8,725 named Kish, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Киш in RU Russia, RS Serbia, Кіш in UA Ukraine and Kish in 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(measured from records)
From a Turkic language, compare to Turkish küçük and Turkmen kiçi.
Sources 6
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Wiktionary
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
- Nordic Names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kìs 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 | 8,725as Kish | 1 in 38K | 8.7K | Kish | 17 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Кіш | 31 |
| HR Croatia | 1,641 | 1 in 2.6K | 1.6K | — | — |
| SK Slovakia | 649 | 1 in 8.4K | 649 | — | — |
| RU Russia | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 273K | — | Киш | 95 |
| RS Serbia | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 30K | listed | Киш | 4 |
| SI Slovenia | 95 | 1 in 22K | 95 | — | — |
8,725 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; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kìs mean, and where does it come from?
- From a Turkic language, compare to Turkish küçük and Turkmen kiçi. Recorded by Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and Wiktionary and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Kìs have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 8.7 thousand people named Kish, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kìs most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kìs is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 2.6 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kìs?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 1,641 people named Kìs in 2021, about 1 in 2.6 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%ACsThe 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, “Kìs”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.