Kontra
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Synonym of bugarija
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈkɑntɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kontra is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 37K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 223K
- NONorway1 in 421K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- 1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)
238 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Synonym of bugarija.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kontra 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.
238 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); MVČR — living population register 2017; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Kontra is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, double
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, contra (against; contrary or opposed to; in opposition or contrast to)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In lad, against; versus (in opposition to)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, counterblow, counterpunch
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, against, anti-
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)- Martin Kontrab. 1929SKCzechoslovak diplomat, member of Czechoslovak parliament, lawyer and Slovak nation politician
- Anton Kontrab. 1932HUHungarian-Danish violinist (1932-2020)
- Géza Kontrab. 1944HUHungarian high school teacher
- Miklós Kontrab. 1950HUHungarian linguist and university teacher
- Edit H. Kontrab. 1952HUHungarian linguist
- Ferenc Kontrab. 1954HUHungarian diplomat
- Zsolt Kontrab. 1955HUHungarian handball player
- Ferenc Kontrab. 1958HUHungarian writer
- Ágnes Kontrab. 1977HUHungarian painter
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 240 | #74,957 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 238 | #79,846 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 221 | #89,848 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 149 | #9,380 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 83 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 48 | #30,168 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 48 | #10,827 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 13 | #51,194 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 8 | #44,859 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7 | #164,799 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Kontra mean, and where does it come from?
- Synonym of bugarija. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kontra?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɑntɹə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kontra have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 238 people named Kontra, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kontra.
- Where is Kontra most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kontra is densest in Finland — about 1 in 37 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kontra?
- In the United States, the national register counted 238 people named Kontra in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million 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/kontraThe 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, “Kontra”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.