Kotkas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: eagle
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries
/koʊtkəz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kotkas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 49K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 1.5M
- DKDenmark1 in 1.5M
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 Kotkas 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.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 56 (measured from records)
- 1 in 49K (inferred from the name graph)
114 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Коткас in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan.
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)eagle
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kotkas 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.
114 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Juhan Kotkasb. 1878EEEstonian violinist, violin teacher and composer (1878-1963)
- Kallio Kotkasb. 1908FIFinnish sportsperson and referee of Estonian origin (1908-1982)
- Kalevi Kotkasb. 1913EEEstonian-Finnish athletics competitor (1913–1983)
- Johannes Kotkasb. 1915EEEstonian wrestler and sportsperson (1915–1998)
- Kalju Kotkasb. 1926EEEstonian politician and freedom fighter (1926-2008)
- Elvi Kotkasb. 1929EEEstonian music educator (born 1929)
- Rein Kotkasb. 1950EEEstonian actor (born 1950)
- Kalev Kotkasb. 1960EEEstonian politician (born 1960)
- Alar Kotkasb. 1960EEEstonian composer (born 1960)
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 114 | #11,542 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 34 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 7 | #45,941 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #73,093 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Kotkas mean, and where does it come from?
- eagle Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kotkas?
- A machine transcription gives /koʊtkəz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kotkas have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 114 people named Kotkas, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kotkas most common?
- Kotkas is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 49 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kotkas?
- In Finland, the national register counted 114 people named Kotkas, about 1 in 49 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kotkas?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kotkasThe 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, “Kotkas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.