Kukliński
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/kuˈkliɲ.ski/(recorded in a dictionary) Polish · from Wiktionary
Kukliński is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: habitational name for someone from Kukle in Suwalki voivodeship or Kuklin in Ciechanow voivodeship, both named with Kukla ‘cowl’ (see Kukla).
- PLPoland1 in 22K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 110Kfew records
- NONorway1 in 304K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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
- 208 (measured from records)
- 1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
1,779 people, 2026
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 Kuklinski in US United States, PL Poland, DE Germany and 4 more.
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)habitational name for someone from Kukle in Suwalki voivodeship or Kuklin in Ciechanow voivodeship, both named with Kukla ‘cowl’ (see Kukla).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kukliński 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 1,779 | 1 in 22K | 1.8K | Kuklinski | 2 |
| US United States | 834 | 1 in 399K | 834 | Kuklinski | 208 |
| DE Germany | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 110K | — | Kuklinski | 64 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Kuklinski | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 765K | — | Kuklinski | 31 |
| IE Ireland | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 128K | — | Kuklinski | 2 |
| NO Norway | 18 | 1 in 304K | 18 | — | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 389K | — | Kuklinski | 16 |
1,779 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026, counting the spelling kukliński. 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)- Antoni Kuklińskib. 1927PLPolish economist
- Ryszard Kuklińskib. 1930PLPolish brigadier general, and spy for NATO during Cold War times (1930–2004)
- Jan Kuklińskib. 1939PLPolish photographer
- Jerzy Kuklińskib. 1940PLPolish historian
- Mirosław Kuklińskib. 1959PLPolish politician and deputy
- Piotr KuklińskiPLPolish zoologist
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 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.8K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.8K | #1,536 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 10 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 10 | #134,783 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Kukliński mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name for someone from Kukle in Suwalki voivodeship or Kuklin in Ciechanow voivodeship, both named with Kukla ‘cowl’ (see Kukla). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kukliński?
- In Polish /kuˈkliɲ.ski/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Kukliński have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Kukliński, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kuklinski.
- Where is Kukliński most common?
- Kukliński is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 22 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kukliński?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,779 people named Kukliński in 2026, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kukliński?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kukli%C5%84skiThe 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, “Kukliński”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.