Koul
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/koʊuɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Koul is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 2.3M(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.7Kas Cole
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 102K
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 Koul 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 138 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 102K (inferred from the name graph)
195,289 named Cole, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Koul 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 195,289as Cole | 1 in 1.7K | 195K | Koul | 134 |
| BR Brazil | 923as Cole | 1 in 229K | 923 | — | — |
| ID Indonesia | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 299K | — | Koul | 8 |
| IN India | 588 | 1 in 2.3M | 588 | Koul | 138 |
| BE Belgium | 408as Cole | 1 in 29K | 447 | Koul | 5 |
| CR Costa Rica | 311as Cole | 1 in 16K | 311 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 222as Cole | 1 in 3.4K | 222 | — | — |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | Koul | 29 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 43as Cole | 1 in 2.4K | 43 | — | — |
195,289 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling cole. 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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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)
- Hira L. Koulb. 1943USAmerican statistician
- Aleksander Kulb. 1975BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian basketball player (born 1975)
- Scaachi Koulb. 1991CACanadian writer (born 1991)
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)
Attested in 16 sources across 9 countries.
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
- How do you pronounce Koul?
- A machine transcription gives /koʊuɫ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Koul have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 195 thousand people named Cole, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Koul?
- In India, the national register counted 588 people named Koul, about 1 in 2.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Koul?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/koulThe 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, “Koul”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.