Cuka
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kəkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cuka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 40K
- SISlovenia1 in 73K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 96 (measured from records)
- 1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
209 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cuka 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 209 | 1 in 1.6M | 269 | Cuka | 96 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 381K | — | Cuka | 10 |
| HR Croatia | — | 105 | 1 in 40K | 105 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | — | 39 | 1 in 274K | 39 | — | — |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Cuka | 2 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 29 | 1 in 73K | 29 | — | — |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 727K | — | Cuka | 1 |
| AI Anguilla | #744 | — | — | — | Cuka | 2 |
209 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 2020; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); MVČR — living population register 2017; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Cuka 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 mqy, kind of tree: Gnetum gnemon L.
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In vo, genitive singular of cuk
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, vinegar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Dūmvads (skurstenī); krāsns, plīts, sildmūru dūmeja
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Dūmu vilkme
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Frances Cukab. 1936GBBritish actress (1936-2020)
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 10 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 269 | #76,963 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 209 | #88,685 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 160 | #103,706 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Cuka?
- A machine transcription gives /kəkə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Cuka have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 209 people named Cuka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cuka.
- Where is Cuka most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cuka is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 40 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Cuka?
- In the United States, the national register counted 209 people named Cuka in 2010, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
- How common is Cuka compared with other names?
- In Anguilla, Cuka is the 744th most common surname of 7,424 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Cuka?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cukaThe 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, “Cuka” — the 744th most common surname in Anguilla. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.