Kallas Family History
Kallas Name Meaning
Greek: shortened form of any of several surnames composed with the first element kalos ‘good beautiful’ for example Kalogiannis ‘good John’ and also of the surnames composed with the personal name Kalogeros (see Calogero ) such as Kalogeropoulos . Compare Callas . Estonian: from kallas ‘shore; coast; slope brink’ either transferred from a farm name or an arbitrary surname given by a manorial official. Alternatively from a farm name based on the personal name Kallas an old short form of Nikolaus (see Nicholas ). Polish: possibly a topographic name from Old Polish kał ‘muddy place’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022