Culina

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/kjʊlinə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Culina is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 3.1K(measured from records)
  • BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 14K
  • BRBrazil1 in 230K

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.

Croatia (measured from records)

1,349 people, 2021

Sources
49 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Čulina in HR Croatia, BA Bosnia & Herzegovina.

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.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Culina 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.

Where Culina is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia#4631,3491 in 3.1K1.3KČulina31
BR Brazil—9191 in 230K919——
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina—≈270 est.≈1 in 14K—Čulina3
PH Philippines—≈73 est.≈1 in 1.5M—Culina6
DE Germany—≈62 est.≈1 in 1.3M—Culina30
AT Austria—≈30 est.≈1 in 297K—Culina7
MD Moldova—≈12 est.≈1 in 277K3—1

1,349 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); e-services.md — living population register. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Culina is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Philippines, United States, El Salvador

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Čulina

  • Romanian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania

    Also written Čulina, Culină

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Čulina

  • Italian name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Čulina

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Čulina

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Čulina

23 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Culina 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 Latin, kitchen

    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)

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 9 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Culina
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—919#10,041

Reference works 1

  • 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

How do you pronounce Culina?
A machine transcription gives /kjʊlinə/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Culina have the most bearers?
In Croatia, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Culina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled čulina.
Where is Culina most common?
Culina is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.1 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Culina?
In Croatia, the national register counted 1,349 people named Culina in 2021, about 1 in 3.1 thousand residents.
How common is Culina compared with other names?
In Croatia, Culina is the 463rd most common surname of 72,581 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Culina” — the 463rd most common surname in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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