Kolař
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Kolař is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Czech Kolář, from kolář (“wheelwright”).
- SISlovenia1 in 773(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 1.3K
- HRCroatia1 in 1.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 87 (measured from records)
- 1 in 773 (inferred from the name graph)
8,366 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kolář in CZ Czechia, SK Slovakia, PL Poland.
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)- CzechKolář(measured from records)
- Czech rootkolář“wheelwright”(measured from records)
From Czech Kolář, from kolář (“wheelwright”).
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kolař 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | #149 | 8,366 | 1 in 1.3K | 8.4K | Kolář | 87 |
| US United States | — | 4,413 | 1 in 75K | 4.4K | — | 72 |
| HR Croatia | — | 2,976 | 1 in 1.4K | 3K | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | — | 2,720 | 1 in 773 | 2.7K | — | 4 |
| PL Poland | — | 164 | 1 in 233K | 84 | Kolář | 14 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 130 | 1 in 65K | 130 | — | 1 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 128 | 1 in 43K | 128 | Kolář | 33 |
8,366 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Petr Kolařb. 1968CZCzech organist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 9 | #87,408 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kolař mean, and where does it come from?
- From Czech Kolář, from kolář (“wheelwright”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and 1 other source.
- In which country does Kolař have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 8.4 thousand people named Kolař, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kolář.
- Where is Kolař most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kolař is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 773 people — even though Czechia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kolař?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 8,366 people named Kolař, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Kolař compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Kolař is the 149th most common surname of 114,573 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kola%C5%99The 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, “Kolař” — the 149th most common surname in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.