Kavka
surname · Latin script
Meaning: jackdaw (bird) (Coloeus monedula)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kəvkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kavka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 49Kas Кавка(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 1Mas Кавка
- CZCzechia1 in 13K
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 Kavka 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.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 72 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈900 named Кавка, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Кавка in UA Ukraine, RU Russia.
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)
jackdaw (bird) (Coloeus monedula)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kavka 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Кавка | 27 |
| CZ Czechia | 804 | 1 in 13K | 804 | Kavka | 44 |
| RU Russia | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Кавка | 72 |
| US United States | 131 | 1 in 2.5M | 131 | Kavka | 35 |
| PL Poland | 116 | 1 in 330K | 65 | Kavka | 3 |
| SI Slovenia | 111 | 1 in 19K | 111 | — | 2 |
| SK Slovakia | 57 | 1 in 95K | 57 | Kavka | 10 |
| FI Finland | 30 | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | — |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Kavka is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, "stake."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Slovenian, jackdaw (Coloeus monedula)
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)
- Jan Hynek Kavkab. 1762CZwriter, poet, translator, Catholic priest (1762–1839)
- Josef V. Kavkab. 1882CZCzech educator and translator (1882-1933)
- Bohumil Kavkab. 1901CZbotanist (1901-1977)
- František Kavkab. 1920CZCzech historian and university educator (1920–2005)
- Josef Kavkab. 1922CZCzech geologist (1922–2019)
- Roman Kavkab. 1934UAUkrainian geneticist
- Hana Kavkováb. 1952CZnot in their usual nameCzech rower
- Markus Kavkab. 1967DEGerman television presenter, author and disc jockey
- Martin Kavkab. 1977CZOstrava-born Czech male (1977-)
- Martin Kavkab. 2000USAmerican religious studies scholar
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 20 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 804 | #1,757 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 801 | #1,733 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 131 | #129,825 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 129 | #135,344 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 124 | #127,186 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 111 | #4,031 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 65 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 65 | #41,175 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 57 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 51 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 51 | #49,523 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #36,135 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
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 Kavka mean, and where does it come from?
- jackdaw (bird) (Coloeus monedula) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kavka?
- A machine transcription gives /kəvkə/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Kavka?
- In the etymology graph, Kafka is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Kavka have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 901 people named Кавка in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kavka most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kavka is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kavka?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 804 people named Kavka, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kavka?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kavkaThe 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, “Kavka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.