Kubala
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a derivative of Kuba, a pet form of the personal name Jakub (see Jacob)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/kubala/(machine-generated) Polish · model-generated
Kubala is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- SKSlovakia1 in 5.7K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 9.9K
- CZCzechia1 in 16K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 70 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.7K (inferred from the name graph)
3,881 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovakia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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 in the world
(measured from records)Kubala 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | — | 3,881 | 1 in 9.9K | 2K | Kubala | 70 |
| US United States | — | 1,269 | 1 in 262K | 1.3K | Kubala | 52 |
| SK Slovakia | #335 | 949 | 1 in 5.7K | 949 | Kubala | 43 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 675 | 1 in 16K | 678 | Kubala | 49 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 359K | — | Kubala | 23 |
| HR Croatia | — | 59 | 1 in 72K | 59 | — | — |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Kubala | 6 |
3,881 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)- Ludwik Kubalab. 1838PLPolish historian (1838-1918)
- László Kubalab. 1927HUHungarian footballer (1927–2002)
- Ray Kubalab. 1942USAmerican football player (1942-2018)
- Milan Kubalab. 1946CZCzech paralympic athlete
- Přemysl Kubalab. 1973CZCzech beach volleyball player
- Martin Kubalab. 1977CZDean of Faculty of Science, Palacky University in Olomouc, chess player
- Anton Kubalab. 1981SKSlovak footballer
- Filip Kubalab. 1999CZCzech footballer
- Szymon KubalaPLPolish plant physiologist
- Jolanta KubalaPLPolish mathematician
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)28 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 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 | #1,385 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.9K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.9K | #1,385 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,491 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #20,806 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #22,595 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 949 | — |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 678 | #2,089 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 675 | #2,157 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 59 | #11,820 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 53 | — |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- 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 Kubala 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 Kubala?
- It depends on the language: in Polish /kubala/; in Swahili /kuɓɑlɑ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Kubala have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 3.9 thousand people named Kubala, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kubala.
- Where is Kubala most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kubala is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 5.7 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kubala?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3,881 people named Kubala in 2026, about 1 in 9.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Kubala compared with other names?
- In Slovakia, Kubala is the 335th most common surname of 69,668 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/kubalaThe 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, “Kubala” — the 335th most common surname in Slovakia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.