Šikula

surname · Latin script

Meaning: a skillful person

Šikula is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SKSlovakia1 in 20K(measured from records)
  • CZCzechia1 in 22K
  • USUnited States1 in 1.9M

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 Šikula 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.

Czechia (measured from records)

497 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
37 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovakia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ŠikulaLatin(measured from records)
СікулаCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Сікула in UA Ukraine and Сикула in RU Russia.

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)

a skillful person

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Šikula 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.

Where Šikula is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia4971 in 22K499Šikula28
SK Slovakia2781 in 20K278Šikula11
US United States1721 in 1.9M172—7
UA Ukraine≈110 est.≈1 in 403K—Сікула12
RU Russia≈26 est.≈1 in 5.5M—Сикула37
PL Poland161 in 2.4M9—6

497 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; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Šikula is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name8 spellings in the group

    Also written Шикула, Sikula, Shikula

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Sikula

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Sikula

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Sikula

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Sikula

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1920194019601980Jaromír Šikula, b. 1924Vincent Šikula, b. 1936Viliam F. Šikula, b. 1942Petr Šikula, b. 1974

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Šikula
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—499#2,849
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—497#3,045
SK SlovakiaJÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census)1995278—

Reference works 1

  • 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 Šikula mean, and where does it come from?
a skillful person Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Šikula have the most bearers?
In Czechia, the national register counted about 497 people named Šikula, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled šikula.
Where is Šikula most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Šikula is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 20 thousand people — even though Czechia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Šikula?
In Czechia, the national register counted 497 people named Šikula, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.

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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, “Šikula”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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