Kalish Surname: Origin, Meaning & Coat of Arms

Kalish is a Polish surname. Elsdon Smith's dictionary of American family names explains it as “one who came from Kalisz, in Poland”. Place names like this marked newcomers by where they had come from.

In the 2010 US Census, 2,899 Americans gave Kalish as their last name (rank 10,974).

If a Kalish family bore arms, our report explains whose they were and what the blazon shows. For the full story, order the Kalish surname pack.