Kolas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Plg. Kolis ir Kuolis (žr.)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kəɫəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kolas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 8.8K
- PLPoland1 in 122K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 113 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈870 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kolås in NO Norway.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Plg. Kolis ir Kuolis (žr.). KÖLASAS Eis. Plg. rus., ukr. Колос, brus. Колас (M. Бирыла, 1969, c. 211), lenk. Kolas, Kolasa, Koloso (S. Rospond, 1973, p. 340). KOLASÄUSKAS Kn. Plg. brus. КаласоускХ (M. Бирыла, 1969, c. 211)
Sources 1
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kolas 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Kolas | 8 |
| NO Norway | 624 | 1 in 8.8K | 624 | Kolås | 5 |
| PL Poland | 314 | 1 in 122K | 177 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 207 | 1 in 1.6M | 221 | Kolas | 113 |
| DE Germany | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Kolas | 29 |
| CZ Czechia | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 332K | 1 | — | — |
| PY Paraguay | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 429K | — | Kolas | 1 |
| IE Ireland | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 315K | — | Kolas | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kolas is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Cebuano, a diminutive of the male given name Nicolas
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, indefinite genitive singular of kola
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, kakaoaugu ģints (Cola), mūžzaļi, līdz 20 m augsti koki, tropiskajā Āfrikā, ~125 sugas; dažas sugas kultivē
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Lithuanian, Plg. Kolis ir Kuolis (žr.).
as a wordVanagas, Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mateusz Kolasb. 2004PLPoland rugby union player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 221 | #89,848 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 207 | #89,403 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 192 | #89,549 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 177 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 177 | #18,122 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 137 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 137 | #23,174 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 1 | #27,579 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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
- How do you pronounce Kolas?
- A machine transcription gives /kəɫəs/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Kolas mean?
- Recorded meaning: Plg. Kolis ir Kuolis (žr.).
- In which country does Kolas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 868 people named Kolas in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kolas.
- Where is Kolas most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kolas is densest in Norway — about 1 in 8.8 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kolas?
- In Norway, the national register counted 624 people named Kolas, about 1 in 8.8 thousand residents.
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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, “Kolas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.