Kubal
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a derivative of Kuba, a pet form of the personal name Jakub (see Jacob) (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/kubal/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Kubal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 55K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 114K
- NONorway1 in 547K
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 79 (measured from records)
- 1 in 55K (inferred from the name graph)
≈460 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Kubal
- Turkish:/kubal/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from a derivative of Kuba, a pet form of the personal name Jakub (see Jacob).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Kubal is found
(measured from records)Kubal 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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)Kubal is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In bik, callus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tsg, callus: a hardened area of the skin (especially on the foot or hand) caused by repeated friction, wear or use
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mdh, animal skin
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)- Viktor Kubalb. 1923SKgraphic artist, cartoonist, film director, screenwriter
- Viktor Kubalb. 1952screenwriter
- Michal Kubalb. 1976CZCzech publicist
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kubal mean, and where does it come from?
- from a derivative of Kuba, a pet form of the personal name Jakub (see Jacob). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kubal?
- In Turkish /kubal/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kubal?
- Mondonomo estimates about 457 people named Kubal in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kubal. After it come India, United States, Poland and Czechia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Kubal most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kubal is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 55 thousand people — even though Türkiye holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kubal?
- In India, the national register counted 422 people named Kubal, about 1 in 3.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Kubal?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kubalThe 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, “Kubal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.