Kaluba
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/kaluɓa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kaluba is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 273K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 446K
- PLPoland1 in 450K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- 1 in 273K (inferred from the name graph)
85 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
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)Kaluba 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 | — | 85 | 1 in 450K | 45 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | — | 24 | 1 in 446K | 24 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 20 | 1 in 273K | 20 | Kaluba | 3 |
| US United States | — | — | — | listed | Kaluba | 38 |
| ZM Zambia | #640 | — | — | 29K | Kaluba | 19 |
| ZA South Africa | — | — | — | — | Kaluba | 9 |
85 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: Zambia top-100 surnames (surnam.es); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZM Zambia | Zambia top-100 surnames (surnam.es) | — | 29K | #71 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 45 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 45 | #53,905 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 40 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 40 | #57,779 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 24 | #47,569 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 24 | #14,607 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 20 | #42,604 |
| ZM Zambia | ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results | 2021 | 12 | #31 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Kaluba?
- A machine transcription gives /kaluɓa/ (IPA) for Swahili.
- In which country does Kaluba have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 85 people named Kaluba, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kaluba most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kaluba is densest in Norway — about 1 in 273 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kaluba?
- In Poland, the national register counted 85 people named Kaluba in 2026, about 1 in 450 thousand residents.
- How common is Kaluba compared with other names?
- In Zambia, Kaluba is the 640th most common surname of 16,584 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kalubaThe 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, “Kaluba” — the 640th most common surname in Zambia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.