Kota
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kota is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India. Recorded meaning: A fort.
- INIndia
- PKPakistan
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 191 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A fort.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kota counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 17K | Kota | 144 |
| PK Pakistan | — | — | Kota | 5 |
| US United States | — | 1.6K | — | 191 |
| HR Croatia | — | 91 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 75 | — | — |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Kota 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 Indonesian, city,
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, lang.. people. South India; lang.,
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, people, Africa
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Hindu name meaning ‘fort’ in Telugu.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In tuw-pro, 1 knife 2 knife on a shaft
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
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)
- Kouta Hiranob. 1973JPnot in their usual nameJapanese manga artist
- Kota Hoshinob. 1975JPJapanese composer
- Kōta Nakayamab. 1980JPJapanese comedian
- Kota Ibushib. 1982JPJapanese professional wrestler
- Kota Uedab. 1986JPJapanese association football player
- Kota Yabub. 1990JPJapanese singer
- Kota Mizunumab. 1990JPJapanese association football player
- Kota Watanabeb. 1998JPJapanese association football player
- Kota Yamadab. 1999JPJapanese association football player
- Kota Takaib. 2004JPJapanese association football player
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)
Attested in 36 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 30K | #32 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 17K | #680 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #17,605 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 904 | #26,873 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 441 | #45,651 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 91 | #8,546 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 87 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 75 | #78,394 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Kota mean, and where does it come from?
- A fort. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Kota have the most bearers?
- Kota is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled kota.
What do you want to know about Kota?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kotaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Kota”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.