Kuchera
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Americanized spelling of Czech and Slovak Kucera (see Kucera)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkətʃɝə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kuchera is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 58Kas Кучера(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 477Kas Кучера
- CZCzechia1 in 707as Kučera
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 Kuchera 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.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 91 (measured from records)
- 1 in 707 (inferred from the name graph)
15,135 named Kučera
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia, as Kučera
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Кучера in UA Ukraine, RU Russia.
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)
Americanized spelling of Czech and Slovak Kucera (see Kucera).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kuchera 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | 15,135as Kučera | 1 in 707 | 15K | — | 1 |
| US United States | 4,058as Kucera | 1 in 82K | 4.2K | Kuchera | 21 |
| SK Slovakia | 2,517as Kučera | 1 in 2.2K | 2.5K | — | — |
| UA Ukraine | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Кучера | 30 |
| RU Russia | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 477K | — | Кучера | 91 |
| HR Croatia | 143as Kučera | 1 in 30K | 143 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 113as Kucera | 1 in 74K | 113 | — | — |
15,135 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
- JoAnn Kuchera-Morinb. 1951UScomposer and university professor
- Ben KucheraUSAmerican video game journalist
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 13 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 705 | #31,126 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 700 | #32,792 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 679 | #35,638 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Kuchera mean, and where does it come from?
- Americanized spelling of Czech and Slovak Kucera (see Kucera). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kuchera?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkətʃɝə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kuchera have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Kučera, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kuchera most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Kuchera itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Czechia's: the national register counts about 1 in 707 people named Kučera.
- How common is the name Kuchera?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 15,135 people named Kučera, about 1 in 707 residents.
What do you want to know about Kuchera?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kucheraThe 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, “Kuchera”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.