Kabat
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Polish, Ukrainian, Sorbian, Czech, Slovak, and Hungarian (Kabat); from Polish and Sorbian kabat, Czech, Slovak, and Hungarian kabat ‘coat’, ‘jerkin’, also ‘military uniform’, hence a metonymic occupat
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkæbət/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kabat is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 15K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia≈1 in 35K
- MNMongolia≈1 in 222K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 70 (measured from records)
- 1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
2,548 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Polish, Ukrainian, Sorbian, Czech, Slovak, and Hungarian (Kabat); from Polish and Sorbian kabat, Czech, Slovak, and Hungarian kabat ‘coat’, ‘jerkin’, also ‘military uniform’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of short coats or a nickname for a soldier. In Ukrainian the Polish loanword kabat also means ‘skirt’, and may have been applied as a nickname for an effeminate man.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kabat 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 2,548 | 1 in 15K | 1.3K | Kabat | 70 |
| IN India | 2,461 | 1 in 539K | 2.5K | Kabat | 2 |
| US United States | 1,079 | 1 in 308K | 1.1K | Kabat | 42 |
| SK Slovakia | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Kabat | 28 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 433K | 8 | Kabat | 11 |
| NO Norway | 22 | 1 in 249K | 22 | Kabat | 7 |
| DK Denmark | 20 | 1 in 293K | 20 | — | — |
| MN Mongolia | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 222K | listed | — | — |
2,548 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Kabat 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 Polish, bitually wore a jerkin or whose jerkin was particularly no¬ ticeable, from Pol. kabat jerkin. Dim.: Czech: Kabatek. Kabelac Czech: metonymic nickname or occupational name from a deriv. of Czech kabela satchel, leather bag, applied to someone who habitually carried such a bag, i.e. a Habitation names: Pol.: Kawiiiski, Kawczyiiski. Kagan see Cohen Kagel see Kogel Kahan see Cohen pedlar.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In Polish, habitually wore a jerkin or whose jerkin was particularly noticeable, from Pol. kabat jerkin. Cogn.: Czech: Rabat. Dim.: Czech: Kabatek. Kabelac Czech: metonymic nickname or occupational name from a deriv. of Czech kabela satchel, leather bag, applied to someone who habitually carried such a bag, i.e. a pedlar. Var.: Kabelka.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In Polish, short coat worn by men and women
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Cebuano, the sum; a quantity obtained by addition or aggregation
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In min, binding round; band; wrapper; circlet
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Maurycy Kabatb. 1814UApolitician
- Władysław Kabatb. 1906PLPolish officer (1906-1980)
- Elvin A. Kabatb. 1914USAmerican immunologist (1914–2000)
- Henryk Kabatb. 1914journalist and photographer
- Carl Kabatb. 1933USAmerican activist
- Andrzej Kabatb. 1934PLPolish lawyer and judge
- Geoffrey Kabatb. 1946USAmerican epidemiologist
- Myla Kabat-Zinnb. 19471947-
- Bronisław Kabatb. 1957PLPolish association football player
- Marek KabatPLPolish cardiologist
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 26 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 2.5K | #2,688 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.3K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.3K | #2,308 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.3K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.3K | #2,342 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #21,424 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,532 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #24,280 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 22 | #40,951 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 20 | #23,211 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 8 | #167,220 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #44,651 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 does the name Kabat mean, and where does it come from?
- Polish, Ukrainian, Sorbian, Czech, Slovak, and Hungarian (Kabat); from Polish and Sorbian kabat, Czech, Slovak, and Hungarian kabat ‘coat’, ‘jerkin’, also ‘military uniform’, hence a metonymic occupat… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kabat?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkæbət/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kabat have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 2.5 thousand people named Kabat, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kabat.
- Where is Kabat most common?
- Kabat is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 15 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kabat?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2,548 people named Kabat in 2026, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
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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, “Kabat”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.