Koula
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A gold coin of Tonga, worth one 16th of a pound, issued in 1962
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/koʊʊlə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Koula is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Côte d’Ivoire than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M(measured from records)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 16K
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈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). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Côte d’Ivoire (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 101 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈270 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A gold coin of Tonga, worth one 16th of a pound, issued in 1962.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Koula 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 102K | 437 | — | — |
| US United States | 238 | 1 in 1.4M | 231 | Koula | 101 |
| AU Australia | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 119K | 1 | Koula | 51 |
| CY Cyprus | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Koula | 9 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 591K | listed | Koula | 4 |
| CA Canada | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 578K | — | Koula | 32 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies. 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)
- Koula Marangopouloub. 1910GRGreek painter
- Koula Agagiotoub. 1915GRGreek actress
- Koulla Kakoullib. 1960GBnot in their usual nameBritish musician, dominatrix and bodybuilder
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 437 | #1,125 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Koula mean, and where does it come from?
- A gold coin of Tonga, worth one 16th of a pound, issued in 1962. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Koula?
- A machine transcription gives /koʊʊlə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Koula a male or female name?
- Koula is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Koula have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 269 people named Koula in Côte d’Ivoire, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Koula?
- In the United States, the national register counted 238 people named Koula in 2020, about 1 in 1.4 million 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/koulaThe 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, “Koula”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.