Kotau
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kotau is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 425K(measured from records)
- BYBelarus≈1 in 1.1Mas Котаў
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 Kotau 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)
- Sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- 1 in 425K (inferred from the name graph)
90 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kotaŭ in BY Belarus.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kotau 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 | 90 | 1 in 425K | 90 | — | — |
| BY Belarus | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Kotaŭ | 3 |
| US United States | — | — | — | Kotau | 10 |
| RU Russia | — | — | — | Kotau | 3 |
| EE Estonia | — | — | listed | — | — |
90 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). 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)
Kotau is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, kowtow
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)
- Uladzimir Kotawb. 1958BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian long-distance runner
- Alyaksandr Kotawb. 1986BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian ice hockey player (1986-)
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 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 90 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 90 | #32,168 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Kotau have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 90 people named Kotau, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kotau most common?
- Kotau is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 425 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kotau?
- In Poland, the national register counted 90 people named Kotau in 2026, about 1 in 425 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kotau?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kotauThe 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, “Kotau”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.