Kolesa
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/koʊɫisə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kolesa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.8M(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 59K
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 338K
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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 86 (measured from records)
- 1 in 59K (inferred from the name graph)
≈300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Czechia
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.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kolesa 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 338K | — | Kolesa | 2 |
| CZ Czechia | 181 | 1 in 59K | 181 | — | — |
| US United States | 118 | 1 in 2.8M | 118 | Kolesa | 86 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 3.4M | — | Kolesa | 2 |
| DE Germany | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 7.1M | — | Kolesa | 11 |
| IE Ireland | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 500K | — | Kolesa | 1 |
| SK Slovakia | 8 | 1 in 680K | 8 | — | — |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Kolesa | 1 |
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; MVČR — living population register 2017; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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)
- Hans Kolesab. 1908ATAustrian composer and kapellmeister (1908-1981)
- Karel Kolesab. 1942CZCzechoslovak rower
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 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 181 | #9,369 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 181 | #5,885 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 118 | #141,140 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 117 | #133,114 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 105 | #152,989 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 8 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Kolesa?
- A machine transcription gives /koʊɫisə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kolesa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 301 people named Kolesa in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kolesa.
- Where is Kolesa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kolesa is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 59 thousand people — even though Congo - Kinshasa holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kolesa?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 181 people named Kolesa, about 1 in 59 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/kolesaThe 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, “Kolesa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.