Kolich
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a pet form of Kol, a short form of the personal name Nikolaus (see Nicholas)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkɑɫɪh/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kolich is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 844K(measured from records)
- TNTunisia≈1 in 176K
- PYParaguay≈1 in 247K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 133 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 176K (inferred from the name graph)
394 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Tunisia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a pet form of Kol, a short form of the personal name Nikolaus (see Nicholas).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kolich 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 394 | 1 in 844K | 394 | Kolich | 133 |
| CA Canada | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 318K | — | Kolich | 8 |
| TN Tunisia | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 176K | — | Kolich | 1 |
| IT Italy | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Kolich | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Kolich | 8 |
| PE Peru | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 754K | — | Kolich | 5 |
| PY Paraguay | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 247K | — | Kolich | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 20 | 1 in 535K | 20 | — | — |
394 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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. 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)
Kolich is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, pet form of the personal name Mikolaj (see Nicholas).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Fernando GagliuffiPEnot in their usual namePeruvian filmmaker and architect
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 8 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 394 | #52,619 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 377 | #58,182 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 376 | #51,945 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 20 | #53,152 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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)
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 Kolich mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet form of Kol, a short form of the personal name Nikolaus (see Nicholas). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kolich?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɑɫɪh/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kolich have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 394 people named Kolich, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kolich.
- How common is the name Kolich?
- In the United States, the national register counted 394 people named Kolich in 2010, about 1 in 844 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/kolichThe 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, “Kolich”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.