Kuštra
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: DZS, 2021
Kuštra is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: unflattering nickname for a slow, indolent person, from Polish dialect and Old Polish kustrac si§ ‘to dawdle’.
- PLPoland1 in 12K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 42K
- NONorway1 in 249K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 18 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
3,068 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)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kustra in US United States.
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)unflattering nickname for a slow, indolent person, from Polish dialect and Old Polish kustrac si§ ‘to dawdle’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kuštra 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.
3,068 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 101 | #7,841 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 92 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kuštra mean, and where does it come from?
- unflattering nickname for a slow, indolent person, from Polish dialect and Old Polish kustrac si§ ‘to dawdle’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Kuštra have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 3.1 thousand people named Kuštra, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kuštra most common?
- Kuštra is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 12 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kuštra?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3,068 people named Kuštra in 2026, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ku%C5%A1traThe 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, “Kuštra”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.