Kolesar
surname · Latin script
Meaning: metonymic occupational name for a Cartwright, from kolesa ‘two- or fourwheeled cart’, from kolo ‘wheel’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kəˈɫɛsɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kolesar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In U.S. Outlying Islands it is the 3rd most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 181K(measured from records)
- UMU.S. Outlying Islands≈1 in 139
- HRCroatia1 in 60K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 234 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 139 (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
U.S. Outlying Islands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
metonymic occupational name for a Cartwright, from kolesa ‘two- or fourwheeled cart’, from kolo ‘wheel’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kolesar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Kolesar | 2 |
| US United States | — | 1,835 | 1 in 181K | 1.8K | Kolesar | 234 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Kolesar | 2 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 131K | — | Kolesar | 48 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 276K | — | Kolesar | 37 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 148 | 1 in 72K | 148 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | — | 71 | 1 in 60K | 71 | — | — |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Kolesar | 1 |
| UM U.S. Outlying Islands | #3 | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 139 | — | Kolesar | 1 |
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; MVČR — living population register 2017; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)
Kolesar 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, wheelwright
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)
- Robert Kolesarb. 1921USPlayer of American football (1921-2004)
- Mark Kolesarb. 1973CACanadian ice hockey player
- Keegan Kolesarb. 1997CACanadian ice hockey player
- Peter J. KolesarUSPh.D. Columbia University 1964
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)
Attested in 15 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #15,857 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.8K | #14,920 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,520 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 71 | #10,293 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 68 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 8 | #92,035 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 8 | #19,148 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Kolesar mean, and where does it come from?
- metonymic occupational name for a Cartwright, from kolesa ‘two- or fourwheeled cart’, from kolo ‘wheel’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kolesar?
- A machine transcription gives /kəˈɫɛsɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kolesar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Kolesar in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kolesar.
- How common is the name Kolesar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,835 people named Kolesar in 2010, about 1 in 181 thousand residents.
- How common is Kolesar compared with other names?
- In U.S. Outlying Islands, Kolesar is the 3rd most common surname of 1,580 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kolesarThe 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, “Kolesar” — the 3rd most common surname in U.S. Outlying Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.