Kuha

loc · Latin script

Meaning: deceiver

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

Kuha is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 4.3K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 352K
  • CZCzechia1 in 2.1M

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 Kuha 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.

Finland (measured from records)

1,304 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
37 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KuhaLatin(measured from records)
КухаCyrillic(measured from records)

Locally spelled Куха in 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)

deceiver.

Sources 1

  • The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kuha 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 Kuha is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland1,3041 in 4.3K1.3K—1
US United States1161 in 2.9M157—1
SE Sweden291 in 352K29——
RU Russia≈12 est.≈1 in 12M#4,181Куха37
PL Poland111 in 3.5M6——
CZ Czechia51 in 2.1M5——

1,304 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)

Kuha is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Thai surname36 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, United States

    Also written คูหา, เคหะ, คะเน, Khuha, Kooha

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Kuh̄a

38 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)

Kuha is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Finnish, zander (Sander lucioperca, formerly Stizostedion lucioperca).

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Filipino, take; grab; act of getting (as with one's hand)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In urj-fin-pro, zander (Sander lucioperca)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Cebuano, to get; to take

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In izh, zander

    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)

19201940196019802000Jouko Kuha, b. 1939Jouni Kuha, b. 1968Miika Kuha, b. 1981

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 14 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Kuha
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—1.3K#1,483
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—667—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020157#117,309
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000142#114,166
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010116#143,149
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—29#19,194
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20266—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—6#181,795
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20265—
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—5#114,681
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—5#199,952
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • 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 Kuha mean, and where does it come from?
deceiver. Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
In which country does Kuha have the most bearers?
In Finland, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Kuha, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Kuha most common?
Kuha is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.3 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Kuha?
In Finland, the national register counted 1,304 people named Kuha, about 1 in 4.3 thousand residents.

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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, “Kuha”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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