How common is the surname Kalish?

2,899 people in the United States had the surname Kalish in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 106,501 Americans. It ranked 10,974th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Kalish?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Kalish identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Kalish getting more or less common?

More common. 2,465 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,899 in 2010, up 18%.

The surname Kalish

A Polish surname, carried by 2,899 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex K420

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kalish is more common than 93.2% of them.

Origin

Polish origin

Borrowed from Polish Kalisz or Czech/Slovak Kališ.

One of 304 Polish surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,899 people named Kalish in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 106,501 Americans. That is up 18% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,465.

#10,974

rank among US surnames

2,899

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+17.6%

change since 2000 (was #11,660)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,968	Diener	2,900	106,464
#10,974	Rabb	2,899	106,501
#10,977	Branstetter	2,898	106,537
#10,979	Lucier	2,897	106,574
#10,983	Mirabal	2,896	106,611

Who is named Kalish

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

95% of people named Kalish identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
Two or more races 1.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Kalish

Kalish has the Soundex code K420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K420.

Other Polish surnames

All 304 Polish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Kalish come from?: Borrowed from Polish Kalisz or Czech/Slovak Kališ.
How common is the surname Kalish?: 2,899 people in the United States had the surname Kalish in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 106,501 Americans. It ranked 10,974th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kalish?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Kalish identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Kalish getting more or less common?: More common. 2,465 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,899 in 2010, up 18%.