Kuchta
surname · Latin script
Meaning: occupational name or nickname for a worker in a kitchen, from kuchta ‘scullery maid’, ‘skivvy’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkətʃtə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kuchta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 4.8K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 7K
- CZCzechia1 in 14K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 95 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.8K (inferred from the name graph)
7,928 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
occupational name or nickname for a worker in a kitchen, from kuchta ‘scullery maid’, ‘skivvy’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kuchta 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 | #570 | 7,928 | 1 in 4.8K | 4K | Kuchta | 95 |
| CN China | — | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 200K | — | Kuchta | 1 |
| US United States | — | 1,925 | 1 in 173K | 1.9K | Kuchta | 66 |
| SK Slovakia | #591 | 778 | 1 in 7K | 778 | Kuchta | 40 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 770 | 1 in 14K | 772 | Kuchta | 40 |
| NO Norway | — | 68 | 1 in 80K | 68 | Kuchta | 4 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 118K | — | Kuchta | 5 |
7,928 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; 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); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Kuchta 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 Czech, a male surname originating as an occupation
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- žr. Kukta
as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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)
- Frank Kuchtab. 1936USAmerican football player (1936-2017)
- Czesław Kuchtab. 1936PLPolish photographer
- Lidia Kuchtównab. 1940PLnot in their usual namePolish theatre historian
- Rainer Kuchtab. 1943PLPolish association football player
- Zygfryd Kuchtab. 1944PLPolish handball player
- Oleg Kukhtab. 1970RUnot in their usual nameRussian singer
- Tatsiana Kukhtab. 1990BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian rower
- Anton Kukhtab. 1991UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian footballer
- Jan Kuchtab. 1997CZCzech association football player
- Marta Kuchta-GładyszPLPolish biologist
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 30 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4K | #544 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4K | #533 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.9K | #15,262 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #14,921 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.9K | #14,422 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 778 | — |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 772 | #1,800 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 770 | #1,852 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 68 | #20,922 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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)
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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 Kuchta mean, and where does it come from?
- occupational name or nickname for a worker in a kitchen, from kuchta ‘scullery maid’, ‘skivvy’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kuchta?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkətʃtə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kuchta have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 7.9 thousand people named Kuchta, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kuchta.
- Where is Kuchta most common?
- Kuchta is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.8 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kuchta?
- In Poland, the national register counted 7,928 people named Kuchta in 2026, about 1 in 4.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Kuchta compared with other names?
- In Poland, Kuchta is the 570th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kuchtaThe 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, “Kuchta” — the 570th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.