Kučera
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈkut͡ʃɛra/(recorded in a dictionary) Czech · from Wiktionary
Kučera is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country, where it is the 82nd most common surname.
- CZCzechia1 in 707(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 2.2K
- HRCroatia1 in 30K
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.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 312 (measured from records)
- 1 in 707 (inferred from the name graph)
15,135 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 Kucera in US United States, CH Switzerland.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kučera 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 | #82 | 15,135 | 1 in 707 | 15K | Kučera | 53 |
| US United States | — | 4,058 | 1 in 82K | 4.2K | Kucera | 312 |
| SK Slovakia | #372 | 2,517 | 1 in 2.2K | 2.5K | Kučera | 30 |
| BR Brazil | — | 170 | 1 in 1.2M | 170 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | — | 153 | 1 in 250K | 89 | — | 1 |
| HR Croatia | — | 143 | 1 in 30K | 143 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 113 | 1 in 74K | 113 | Kucera | 14 |
15,135 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; MVČR — living population register 2017; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Oldřich Kučerab. 1914CZCzechoslovak ice hockey player (1914–1964)
- Henry Kučerab. 1925CZCzech informatician and linguist (1925–2010)
- Jaroslav Kučerab. 1929CZCzech cinematographer
- Rudolf Kučerab. 1940CZCzech soccer player (1940–2024)
- Eduard Kučerab. 1953CZCzech software engineer and entrepreneur
- Jiří Kučerab. 1966CZCzech ice hockey player and coach (born 1966)
- František Kučerab. 1968CZice hockey player
- Karol Kučerab. 1974SKSlovak tennis player
- Radim Kučerab. 1974CZCzech soccer player
- Štěpán Kučerab. 1984CZCzech soccer player
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 15K | #15 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 15K | #14 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 15K | #14 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 2.5K | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 143 | #5,793 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 110 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 27 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 27 | #74,602 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 19 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 19 | #92,673 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 are other forms of the name Kučera?
- In the etymology graph, Kuczera is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Kučera?
- It depends on the language: in Czech /ˈkut͡ʃɛra/ (Wiktionary); in Slovak /ˈkut͡ʃera/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Kučera have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Kučera, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kučera.
- Where is Kučera most common?
- Kučera is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 707 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kučera?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 15,135 people named Kučera, about 1 in 707 residents.
- How common is Kučera compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Kučera is the 82nd most common surname of 114,573 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kučera?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ku%C4%8DeraThe 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, “Kučera” — the 82nd most common surname in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.