Kułak
surname · Latin script
Meaning: kulak (wealthy peasant who owned land and hired workers; in Poland, the term became more widespread during the 1950s) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/kuˈwak/(recorded in a dictionary) Polish · from Wiktionary
Kułak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country: 2,876 people, counted by dane.gov.pl in 2026.
- PLPoland1 in 13K(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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)
- Record sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
2,876 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Kułak
- Polish:/kuˈwak/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)kulak (wealthy peasant who owned land and hired workers; in Poland, the term became more widespread during the 1950s)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Kułak is found
(measured from records)Kułak 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.
2,876 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). 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)- Elżbieta Krajewska-Kułakb. 1957PLPolish physician and researcher
- Krzysztof Kułakb. 1981PLPolish jujutsu practitioner and mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter
- Agnieszka Kułak-BejdaPLresearcher
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kułak mean, and where does it come from?
- kulak (wealthy peasant who owned land and hired workers; in Poland, the term became more widespread during the 1950s) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kułak?
- In Polish /kuˈwak/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Kułak have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 2.9 thousand people named Kułak, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kułak.
- Where is Kułak most common?
- Kułak is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 13 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kułak?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2,876 people named Kułak in 2026, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ku%C5%82akThe 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, “Kułak” — ranked 1981st in Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.