Kuľka
surname · Latin script
Kuľka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: nickname for a short, round person, from Polish, Czech kulka ‘ball’, a diminutive of kula (see Kula).
- PLPoland1 in 11K(measured from records)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 131Kas Кулька
- CZCzechia1 in 69K
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 Kuľka itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 77 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,500 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kulka in PL Poland, US United States, CZ Czechia and 1 more and Кулька 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)
nickname for a short, round person, from Polish, Czech kulka ‘ball’, a diminutive of kula (see Kula).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kuľka 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 253K | — | Kulka | 1 |
| PL Poland | 3,611 | 1 in 11K | 1.8K | Kulka | 77 |
| US United States | 794 | 1 in 419K | 794 | Kulka | 46 |
| BR Brazil | 648 | 1 in 327K | 648 | — | 1 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 131K | — | Кулька | 13 |
| CZ Czechia | 154 | 1 in 69K | 154 | Kulka | 25 |
| SK Slovakia | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 147K | — | Kuľka | 16 |
| NO Norway | 28 | 1 in 195K | 28 | — | 2 |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kuľka mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname for a short, round person, from Polish, Czech kulka ‘ball’, a diminutive of kula (see Kula). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Kuľka have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.5 thousand people named Kuľka in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kulka.
- Where is Kuľka most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kuľka is densest in Poland — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kuľka?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3,611 people named Kuľka in 2026, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kuľka?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ku%C4%BEkaThe 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, “Kuľka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.