Golka
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡoʊɫkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Golka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.8M(measured from records)
- MLMali≈1 in 84K
- CNChina≈1 in 157K
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
- 95 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 84K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Mali, est.
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)
Golka 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.
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); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
- Bartłomiej Golkab. 1934PLPolish media scholar
- Marek Golkab. 1948PLPolish physicist
- James Golkab. 1966USAmerican Catholic archbishop
- Tomasz Golkab. 1975PLpolish-American conductor and composer (born 1975)
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 13 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 189 | #96,368 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 188 | #102,164 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 177 | #95,567 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 94 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 94 | #31,049 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 87 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 87 | #33,461 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 68 | #23,185 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 68 | #9,252 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- 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
- How do you pronounce Golka?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡoʊɫkə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Golka have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.9 thousand people named Golka in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled golka.
- How common is the name Golka?
- In the United States, the national register counted 189 people named Golka in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
What do you want to know about Golka?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/golkaThe 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, “Golka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.