Kolos
surname · Latin script
Meaning: colossus (statue of gigantic size)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɒləʊz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kolos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 9.6Kas Колос(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 69Kas Колос
- PLPoland1 in 50K
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 Kolos 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
- 123 (measured from records)
- 1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,600 named Колос, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Колос in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, BY Belarus and 1 more.
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)
colossus (statue of gigantic size)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kolos 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.
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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Kolos 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.
In Russian, "ear (of corn)."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Latvian, locative plural of kols
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, colossus (large man)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kyj, river; stream
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, colossus
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)
- Sigismond Kolos-Varyb. 1899FRHungarian born French painter (1899-1983)
- Richárd Kolosb. 1904HUengineer, politician (1904–1969)
- Tamás Kolosb. 1927HUHungarian psychologist
- Uladzimir Kolasb. 1951BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian film director
- Dash Kolosactress
- Izabela Muszalska-KolosPLPolish pharmacist, researcher
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 27 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 402 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 402 | #8,237 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 369 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 369 | #8,798 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 28 | #37,003 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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
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 Kolos mean, and where does it come from?
- colossus (statue of gigantic size) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kolos?
- A machine transcription gives /kɒləʊz/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- In which country does Kolos have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.6 thousand people named Колос in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kolos most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kolos is densest in Poland — about 1 in 50 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- What are other forms of the name Kolos?
- In the etymology graph, Cai, Nicolau and Nichol are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Kolos?
- In Poland, the national register counted 771 people named Kolos in 2026, about 1 in 50 thousand residents.
- How common is Kolos compared with other names?
- In Belarus, Kolos is the 652nd most common surname of 80,255 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kolos?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kolosThe 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, “Kolos” — the 652nd most common surname in Belarus. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.