Kukhar
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kukɑɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kukhar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 6.1Kas Кухар(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 87Kas Кухарь
- PLPoland1 in 48K
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 Kukhar 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.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 115 (measured from records)
- 1 in 48K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,200 named Кухар, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kuchar in CZ Czechia, US United States, PL Poland, Кухар in UA Ukraine and Кухарь 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kukhar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | #520 | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Кухар | 39 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 2,551as Kuchař | 1 in 4.2K | 2.6K | Kuchar | 52 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 1,770as Kuhar | 1 in 1.2K | 1.8K | — | 1 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Кухарь | 115 |
| US United States | — | 1,277as Kuchar | 1 in 260K | 1.3K | Kuchar | 47 |
| HR Croatia | — | 1,070as Kuhar | 1 in 4K | 1.1K | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | 796 | 1 in 48K | 409 | Kuchar | 35 |
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: MVČR — living population register 2017; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Roman Kukharb. 1920UAUkrainian writer (1920–2007)
- Halyna Kukharb. 1951UAfigure skater
- Natalija Oleksandriwna Kuchar-Onyschkob. 1951UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian art historian and local historian
- Kateryna Kukharb. 1982UAUkrainian ballet dancer
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 9 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 409 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 409 | #8,091 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 387 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 387 | #8,404 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #221,971 |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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 Kukhar?
- A machine transcription gives /kukɑɹ/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- In which country does Kukhar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.2 thousand people named Кухар in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kukhar most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kukhar is densest in Poland — about 1 in 48 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kukhar?
- In Poland, the national register counted 796 people named Kukhar in 2026, about 1 in 48 thousand residents.
- How common is Kukhar compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Kukhar is the 520th most common surname of 1,177,784 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kukhar?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kukharThe 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, “Kukhar” — the 520th most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.