Kolka
loc · Latin script
Meaning: from a pet form of Kola, a short form of the personal name MikoldS, Czech form of Nicholas
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Kolka is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 55K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 78K
- USUnited States1 in 786K
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 Kolka itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 44 (measured from records)
- 1 in 55K (inferred from the name graph)
692 people, 2026
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Колька 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)from a pet form of Kola, a short form of the personal name MikoldS, Czech form of Nicholas.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kolka 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.
692 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Kolka 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.
Plg. lenk. Kolnicki (SSNO III 51) ir liet. Kulnickas (žr.). KOtNIUS Plng - žr. Kukius. KOLODÄVICIUS Šlv - žr. Kaladavičius
as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
In Russian, dim of Kol.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Polish, stitch (intense stabbing pain under the lower edge of the ribcage)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, apdzīvota vieta (lielciems) Talsu novadā (2009.-2021. g. Dundagas novadā, 1990.-2009. g. Talsu rajonā) 73 km no Talsiem (pa autoceļu), vēstures avotos minēta jau 1050. gadā, pagasta centrs
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Lithuanian, Plg. Kolkis (žr.). Matyt, sietina su lenk. Kolka (SSNO III 51), brus. Xanexo, Xaavkoj, rus. Xon6ko6 (M. Būpeina, 1969, c. 426).
as a wordVanagas, Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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)- Indrek Kolkab. 1948EEEstonian astronomer (born 1948)
- Cathryn M KolkaUSresearcher
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 423 | #49,636 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 414 | #53,865 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 395 | #49,869 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 358 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 358 | #9,259 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 334 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 334 | #9,755 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 138 | #12,334 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 138 | #6,675 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 4 | #60,975 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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 Kolka mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet form of Kola, a short form of the personal name MikoldS, Czech form of Nicholas. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Kolka have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 692 people named Kolka, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kolka most common?
- Kolka is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 55 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kolka?
- In Poland, the national register counted 692 people named Kolka in 2026, about 1 in 55 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/kolkaThe 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, “Kolka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.