Kotuľa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: metal ring
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Kotuľa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 15K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 67K
- NONorway1 in 161K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kotuľa itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 75 (measured from records)
- 1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
2,529 people, 2026
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Kotula in PL Poland, US United States, CZ Czechia and 3 more and Котула in UA Ukraine.
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)metal ring
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Kotuľa is found
(measured from records)Kotuľa 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 2,529 | 1 in 15K | 1.3K | Kotula | 75 |
| US United States | 905 | 1 in 368K | 905 | Kotula | 49 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 130K | — | Котула | 15 |
| CZ Czechia | 159 | 1 in 67K | 159 | Kotula | 36 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 466K | — | Kotula | 15 |
| SK Slovakia | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Kotula | 18 |
| NO Norway | 34 | 1 in 161K | 34 | Kotula | 5 |
2,529 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; MVČR — living population register 2017; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kotuľa mean, and where does it come from?
- metal ring Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kotuľa?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 2.5 thousand people named Kotuľa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kotula. After it come United States, Ukraine, Czechia and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Kotuľa most common?
- Kotuľa is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 15 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kotuľa?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2,529 people named Kotuľa in 2026, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kotu%C4%BEaThe 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, “Kotuľa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.