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    The surname Kellis

    A Greek nickname surname, carried by 674 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex K420

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kellis is more common than 79.2% of them.

    Origin

    Greek origin

    A variant of Kelly or from Greek Κέλλης (Kéllis), a nickname for a bald man, from Turkish kel (“bald”).

    Kellis is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

    One of 45 Greek surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 674 people named Kellis in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 458,079 Americans. That is down 17% since 2000, when the Census counted 809.

    #33,772
    rank among US surnames
    674
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -16.7%
    change since 2000 (was #27,924)

    Who is named Kellis

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

    92% of people named Kellis identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.1% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.4%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.5%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Kellis

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

    Other Greek surnames

    All 45 Greek surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Kellis come from?
    A variant of Kelly or from Greek Κέλλης (Kéllis), a nickname for a bald man, from Turkish kel (“bald”).
    How common is the surname Kellis?
    674 people in the United States had the surname Kellis in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 458,079 Americans. It ranked 33,772nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Kellis?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Kellis identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Kellis?
    Kellis is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
    Is the surname Kellis getting more or less common?
    Less common. 809 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 674 in 2010, down 17%.