Kozub
surname · Latin script
Meaning: metonymic occupational name for a fireplace maker, from western Slavic kozub ‘fireplace’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkoʊzəb/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kozub is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 9.8K(measured from records)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 8.9Kas Козуб
- RURussia≈1 in 54Kas Козуб
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 Kozub 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 123 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Козуб in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, CN China.
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)
metonymic occupational name for a fireplace maker, from western Slavic kozub ‘fireplace’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kozub 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.
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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Kozub is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Polish, Kozub (a village in the Gmina of Lututów, Wieruszów County, Lodz Voivodeship, Poland)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In szl, old goat
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)
- Ernst Kozubb. 1924DEGerman opera singer (1924-1971)
- Kazimierz Kozubb. 1935PLPolish journalist
- Wiesław Kozub-Ciembroniewiczb. 1944PLPolish jurist
- Zbigniew Kozubb. 1960PLPolish conductor
- Wojciech Kozubb. 1976PLPolish sportsperson and biathlete
- Wojciech Kozubb. 1980PLPolish athlete
- Štěpán Kozubb. 1996CZCzech actor
- Łukasz Kozubb. 1997PLvolleyball player
- Łukasz KozubPLPolish researcher
- Barbara KozubPLPolish engineer
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 24 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2K | #1,364 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.9K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.9K | #1,395 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 665 | #34,149 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 664 | #36,294 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 636 | #33,782 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 115 | #14,684 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 115 | #7,243 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Kozub mean, and where does it come from?
- metonymic occupational name for a fireplace maker, from western Slavic kozub ‘fireplace’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kozub?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkoʊzəb/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- In which country does Kozub have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Kozub in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled козуб.
- Where is Kozub most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kozub is densest in Poland — about 1 in 9.8 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kozub?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3,905 people named Kozub in 2026, about 1 in 9.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Kozub compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Kozub is the 938th most common surname of 1,177,784 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kozubThe 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, “Kozub” — the 938th most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.