Korda
loc · Latin script
Meaning: from korda ‘rope’ (Latin corda ‘rope’)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Korda is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 15K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 30K
- PLPoland1 in 37K
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 Korda 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 95 (measured from records)
- 1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
1,038 people, 2026
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Корда in UA Ukraine, RU Russia and Corda in US United States.
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 korda ‘rope’ (Latin corda ‘rope’). This was used as a nickname in various senses (including ‘monk’, with reference to the rope used by monks as belts). It may also have been a metonymic occupational name for a monk.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Korda is found
(measured from records)Korda 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 1,038 | 1 in 37K | 527 | — | 39 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Корда | 17 |
| US United States | 516as Corda | 1 in 645K | 643 | Corda | 26 |
| RU Russia | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 328K | — | Корда | 95 |
| CZ Czechia | 351 | 1 in 30K | 353 | — | 21 |
| HR Croatia | 291 | 1 in 15K | 291 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 144as Corda | 1 in 58K | 144 | — | 2 |
1,038 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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)Korda 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.
from a pet form of the Old Czech personal name Komel, a vernacular form of Latin Cornelius.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In vep, to peel (remove the skin/husk)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkish, locative singular of kor
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sla-pro, pile of logs
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pov, rope
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)- Alexander Kordab. 1893HUBritish film director (1893–1956)
- Petr Kordab. 1968CZCzech tennis player
- Nelly Kordab. 1998USAmerican golfer
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)32 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Korda come from?
- from korda ‘rope’ (Latin corda ‘rope’). This was used as a nickname in various senses (including ‘monk’, with reference to the rope used by monks as belts). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Korda mean?
- Recorded meaning: from korda ‘rope’ (Latin corda ‘rope’).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Korda?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Korda, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Ukraine, United States, Russia and Czechia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Korda most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Korda is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 15 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Korda?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,038 people named Korda in 2026, about 1 in 37 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/kordaThe 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, “Korda”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.