Kuneš
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: JÚĽŠ SAV, 1995
/ˈkunɛʃ/(recorded in a dictionary) Czech · from Wiktionary
Kuneš is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of Kuhn, from a diminutive of Konrad.
- BRBrazil1 in 8.5M(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 11K
- SKSlovakia1 in 419K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 36 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
939 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kunes 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)Variant of Kuhn, from a diminutive of Konrad.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kuneš 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | 939 | 1 in 11K | 939 | Kuneš | 36 |
| US United States | 589 | 1 in 565K | 589 | Kunes | 5 |
| BR Brazil | 25 | 1 in 8.5M | 25 | — | — |
| SK Slovakia | 13 | 1 in 419K | 13 | Kuneš | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Kuneš | 2 |
939 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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)Kuneš is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Serbo-Croatian, second-person singular present of kleti
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Vojtěch Václav Kunešb. 1817CZastronomer
- Karel Kunešb. 1908CZCzechoslovak painter
- Karel Kunešb. 1920CZCzech sculptor (1920–1997)
- Josef Kunešb. 1930CZresearcher
- Pavel Kunešb. 1937CZCzech priest
- Jaroslav Kunešb. 1939CZCzech actor
- Miroslav Kunešb. 1946CZCzechoslovakian ice hockey player
- Aleš Kunešb. 1954CZCzech photographer and university educator (born 1954)
- Michael Kunešb. 1955CZCzech member of Czech Parliament (1996–2002), local politician and mayor
- Jiří Kunešb. 1965CZresearcher
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 939 | #1,455 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 937 | #1,444 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 13 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Kuneš mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Kuhn, from a diminutive of Konrad. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Kuneš?
- In Czech /ˈkunɛʃ/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Kuneš have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 939 people named Kuneš, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kuneš.
- Where is Kuneš most common?
- Kuneš is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kuneš?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 939 people named Kuneš, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kuneš?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kune%C5%A1The 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, “Kuneš”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.