Kombu
loc · Latin script
Meaning: lang., people, Russia
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Kombu is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 210Kas Комбу(inferred from the name graph)
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kombu 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 73 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 214K (inferred from the name graph)
≈670 named Комбу, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Russia, est., as Комбу
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Комбу in 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)lang., people, Russia
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Kombu is found
(measured from records)Kombu 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: the in-instate-surnames-bystate register. 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)Kombu 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 English, Komi [Zyryan]
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, seaweed
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Edible kelp (“a type of brown seaweed”) (from the class Phaeophyceae) used in East Asian cuisine.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nlg, to swell and be mature, of the breasts
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Esperanto, imperative of kombi
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kombu mean, and where does it come from?
- lang., people, Russia Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- In which country does Kombu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 670 people named Комбу in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kombu?
- Mondonomo estimates about 670 people in Russia have Комбу as their first surname, about 1 in 214 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Kombu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kombuThe 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, “Kombu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.