Kukaj
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kukəʒ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kukaj is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Albania than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1M(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 11Kas Kukavica
- XKKosovo≈1 in 5.8K
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 Kukaj 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.
- Albania (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 72 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈460 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kosovo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kukavica in HR Croatia, BA Bosnia & Herzegovina.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kukaj 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL Albania | #414 | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | — | Kukaj | 27 |
| HR Croatia | — | 372as Kukavica | 1 in 11K | 372 | Kukavica | 29 |
| XK Kosovo | #260 | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | — | Kukaj | 5 |
| US United States | — | 319 | 1 in 1M | 319 | Kukaj | 72 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Kukavica | 10 |
| SI Slovenia | #286 | 161as Kukavica | 1 in 13K | 161 | Kukaj | 10 |
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; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Kukaj 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 Polish, second-person singular imperative of kukać
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 319 | #62,714 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 313 | #67,846 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 175 | #96,480 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 117 | #3,850 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
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
- How do you pronounce Kukaj?
- A machine transcription gives /kukəʒ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kukaj have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 457 people named Kukaj in Albania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kukaj.
- How common is the name Kukaj?
- In the United States, the national register counted 319 people named Kukaj in 2010, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
- How common is Kukaj compared with other names?
- In Albania, Kukaj is the 414th most common surname of 16,055 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kukajThe 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, “Kukaj” — the 414th most common surname in Albania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.