Kudela

surname · Latin script

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

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

Kudela is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Czech Kúdela or Kuděla, Slovak Kúdeľa and Polish Kudela.

rarermore common
  • SKSlovakia1 in 10K(measured from records)
  • CZCzechia1 in 23K
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 37K

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)

821 people, 2026

Sources
45 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovakia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kúdela in SK Slovakia.

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)

From Czech Kúdela or Kuděla, Slovak Kúdeľa and Polish Kudela.

Sources 1

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kudela 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 Kudela is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland—8211 in 47K432Kudela41
SK Slovakia#4695211 in 10K521Kúdela32
CZ Czechia—4581 in 23K460Kudela45
US United States—2381 in 1.4M238Kudela23
FR France—≈39 est.≈1 in 1.7M3——
EE Estonia—≈33 est.≈1 in 37Klisted——

821 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: 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); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)

Kudela is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Kúdela, Kuděla

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Kúdela

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Kúdela, Kuděla

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Kůdela, Kúdeľa, Kuděla, Kúdela

  • Hindi surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States

    Also written Kúdela

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Кудела, Kúdela

24 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Kudela is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Russian, var of Kudelia.

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

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)

1850190019502000Antonín Kudela, b. 1870Emanuel Kudela, b. 1875Josef Kudela, b. 1886Miroslav Kudela, b. 1955Petr Kudela, b. 1969Ondřej Kúdela, b. 1987

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)

FormalDear Kudela,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 17 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Kudela
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—460#3,080
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—458#3,349
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026432—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—432#7,624
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026389—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—389#8,361
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010238#79,846
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020233#86,153
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000230#77,472
SK SlovakiaJÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census)199556—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193111—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19716—

Reference works 3

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 Kudela mean, and where does it come from?
From Czech Kúdela or Kuděla, Slovak Kúdeľa and Polish Kudela. Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Kudela?
A machine transcription gives /kudɛɫə/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Kudela have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 821 people named Kudela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kudela.
Where is Kudela most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kudela is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 10 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Kudela?
In Poland, the national register counted 821 people named Kudela in 2026, about 1 in 47 thousand residents.
How common is Kudela compared with other names?
In Slovakia, Kudela is the 469th most common surname of 69,668 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, “Kudela” — the 469th most common surname in Slovakia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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