Kožar

surname · Latin script

Meaning: skinner, tanner, currier

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/kôʒaːr/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Kožar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 14K(measured from records)
  • SISlovenia1 in 3.5K
  • SKSlovakia1 in 8K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Poland (measured from records)

1,450 people, 2026

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
36 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KožarLatin(measured from records)
КозарCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kozar in US United States, SI Slovenia.

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)

skinner, tanner, currier

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kožar 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.

Where Kožar is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland—1,4501 in 26K739——
US United States—1,4071 in 236K1.4KKozar36
SK Slovakia—6831 in 8K683——
SI Slovenia#3206031 in 3.5K603Kozar24
HR Croatia#9863131 in 14K313Kožar30
CZ Czechia—1851 in 58K185——

1,450 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kožar is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Ukrainian surname22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Slovakia

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Polish

    Also written Козар, Козарь, Kozar, Kozár, Kožár

  • English surname24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Argentina

    Languages: English, Spanish, German

    Also written Kozar, Kozár, Kožár

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Kožár, Kozár, Kozař, Kozâr, Kozar

  • Finnish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Kozar

  • Turkish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Switzerland

    Also written Kozar

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1970198019902000Jernej Kožar, b. 1970Tomaž Kožar, b. 1994Aleš Kožar, b. 1995

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)

FormalPoštovani Kožar,Dear Kožar, (English)
InformalPoštovani Kožar,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Kožar
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—417#818
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021313#2,558
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)2021270—
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—12#72,788

Reference works 2

  • 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 Kožar mean, and where does it come from?
skinner, tanner, currier Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Kožar?
A machine transcription gives /kôʒaːr/ (IPA) for Croatian.
In which country does Kožar have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Kožar, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Kožar most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kožar is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 3.5 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Kožar?
In Poland, the national register counted 1,450 people named Kožar in 2026, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.
How common is Kožar compared with other names?
In Slovenia, Kožar is the 320th most common surname of 13,062 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Kožar” — the 320th most common surname in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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