Kujawa

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Kujawy, on the left bank of the Vistula between Wrodawek and Bydgoszcz

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

Kujawa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. In Belize it is the 25th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 109K(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 2.8K
  • NONorway1 in 85K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Poland (measured from records)

13,630 people, 2026

Sources
227 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Kujawy, on the left bank of the Vistula between Wrodawek and Bydgoszcz. Vars.: Kujawski, Kujawiak. Krysiak see Christopher Kukharenko see Cook Krysl see Christian Kukla Czech: metonymic nickname from Czech kukla hood, probably bestowed on a habitual wearer of a hood.

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kujawa 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 Kujawa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland—13,6301 in 2.8K6.9KKujawa3
US United States—3,0391 in 109K3KKujawa227
NO Norway—641 in 85K64—4
CZ Czechia—451 in 238K45——
FI Finland—451 in 124K45—2
DK Denmark—261 in 226K26——
BZ Belize#25———Kujawa1

13,630 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); MVČR — living population register 2017; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

Kujawa is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Polish, Kujawy, on the left bank of the Vistula between Wroclawek and Bydgoszcz. Vars.: Kujawski, Kujawiak. Kukla Czech: metonymic nickname from Czech kukla hood, probably bestowed on a habitual wearer of a hood. Dim.: Kuklik

    as a nameA dictionary of surnames

  • In Polish, from the district Kujawy, on the west bank of the Vistula, bounded by the Vistula and Notec rivers and Lake Gopto.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In Polish, Kujawa (a village in the Gmina of Osiek, Brodnica County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)

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

  • In Swahili, infinitive of -jawa

    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)

19201940196019802000Ryszard Kujawa, b. 1932Mateusz Kujawa, b. 1946Jens Kujawa, b. 1965Radosław Kujawa, b. 1965Roman Kujawa, b. 1967Marlena Ciechan-Kujawa, b. 1971Rafał Kujawa, b. 1988

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 27 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Kujawa
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20266.9K—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—6.9K#256
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20266.8K—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—6.8K#253
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020103K#10,548
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020003K#9,874
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.9K#10,423
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—64#22,046
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—45#31,533
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—45#24,943
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—45#11,195
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—26#18,565

Reference works 6

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

Where does the name Kujawa come from?
Kujawy, on the left bank of the Vistula between Wrodawek and Bydgoszcz. Vars.: Kujawski, Kujawiak. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
What does the name Kujawa mean?
Recorded meaning: Kujawy, on the left bank of the Vistula between Wrodawek and Bydgoszcz.
In which country does Kujawa have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Kujawa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kujawa.
Where is Kujawa most common?
Kujawa is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.8 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Kujawa?
In Poland, the national register counted 13,630 people named Kujawa in 2026, about 1 in 2.8 thousand residents.
How common is Kujawa compared with other names?
In Belize, Kujawa is the 25th most common surname of 11,408 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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kujawa” — the 25th most common surname in Belize. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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