Kotas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: with the stress on the second syllable, it is an occupational name for a poulterer, from kota ‘hen’ -I- the occupational suffix -as (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈkɔ.tas/(recorded in a dictionary) Polish · from Wiktionary
Kotas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country: 2,788 people, counted by dane.gov.pl in 2026.
- PLPoland1 in 14K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 15K
- SKSlovakia1 in 495K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 65 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
2,788 people, 2026
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)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.
How to pronounce Kotas
- Polish:/ˈkɔ.tas/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)with the stress on the second syllable, it is an occupational name for a poulterer, from kota ‘hen’ -I- the occupational suffix -as.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Kotas is found
(measured from records)Kotas 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 | 2,788 | 1 in 14K | 1.4K | Kotas | 65 |
| CZ Czechia | 733 | 1 in 15K | 734 | Kotas | 47 |
| US United States | 642 | 1 in 518K | 651 | Kotas | 44 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 630K | — | Kotas | 21 |
| FR France | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | 9 | Kotas | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 625K | — | Kotas | 3 |
| SK Slovakia | 11 | 1 in 495K | 11 | — | — |
2,788 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)Kotas 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 Polish, from a pet form of the personal name Chotebor, meaning ‘warlike’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Polish, with the stress on the first syllable, this is from a pet form of the personal name Konstantinos (see Constantine, and compare Kostas).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Polish, derivative of Kot ‘cat’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Swedish, indefinite genitive singular of kota
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, present of koti
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)- Waldemar Kotasb. 1950PLPolish actor
- Patrik Kotasb. 1964CZCzech architect, designer and university educator
- Piotr Kotasb. 1987PLPolish biathlete
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kotas mean, and where does it come from?
- with the stress on the second syllable, it is an occupational name for a poulterer, from kota ‘hen’ -I- the occupational suffix -as. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kotas?
- In Polish /ˈkɔ.tas/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kotas?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 2.8 thousand people named Kotas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kotas. After it come Czechia, United States, United Kingdom and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Kotas most common?
- Kotas is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 14 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kotas?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2,788 people named Kotas in 2026, about 1 in 14 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/kotasThe 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, “Kotas” — ranked 2060th in Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.