Hulka
surname · Latin script
Meaning: discussed as counterpart of Hwlcyn; likely hypocoristic (Welsh Surnames)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Hulka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country: 718 people, counted by MVČR. Hulka is also written Хулка in Cyrillic.
- CZCzechia1 in 15K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 273K
- UAUkraine≈1 in 300Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hulka itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- 1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
718 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Hulka in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hůlka in CZ Czechia.
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
(measured from records)discussed as counterpart of Hwlcyn; likely hypocoristic
Cited for this meaning 1
- Welsh Surnames
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Hulka is found
(measured from records)Hulka 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.
718 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Hulka is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Czech (Hulka); nickname for a tall thin person, from hul ‘stick’, ‘cane’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Welsh, Variant of Hulta from Hul-/Hywel; attested in CaernCR 56 as "Gruffydd ap Dafydd ap Hulka".
as a nameWelsh Surnames
In Swahili, character, nature
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)- Paweł Hulka-Laskowskib. 1881PLPolish writer, translator, journalist and social worker
- Karl Hulkab. 1915ATAustrian teacher and writer
- Jaroslav Hulkab. 1952photographer
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hulka mean, and where does it come from?
- discussed as counterpart of Hwlcyn; likely hypocoristic Recorded by Welsh Surnames.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Hulka?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 718 people named Hulka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hůlka. After it come United States, Poland, Ukraine and India; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Hulka most common?
- Hulka is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 15 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hulka?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 718 people named Hulka, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hulkaThe 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, “Hulka” — ranked 1943rd in Czechia (KdeJsme.cz). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.