Kuksa

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Plg. liet. kuksa. „ranka su nutraukta plaštaka; menkas, silpnas, sulinkęs žmogus; mažas storas žmogus ar gyvulys“ (LKŽ VI 801)

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

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

Kuksa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 13Kas Кукса(inferred from the name graph)
  • RURussia≈1 in 47Kas Кукса
  • KZKazakhstan≈1 in 79Kas Кукса

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 Kuksa 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)

≈3,400 named Кукса, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
126 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 121K (inferred from the name graph)

Kyrgyzstan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KuksaLatin(measured from records)
КуксаCyrillic(measured from records)

Locally spelled Кукса in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 4 more.

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)

recorded in Lithuanian

Plg. liet. kuksa. „ranka su nutraukta plaštaka; menkas, silpnas, sulinkęs žmogus; mažas storas žmogus ar gyvulys“ (LKŽ VI 801)

Sources 1

  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kuksa 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 Kuksa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
UA Ukraine≈3,400 est.≈1 in 13K—Кукса35
RU Russia≈3,000 est.≈1 in 47K—Кукса126
TW Taiwan≈500 est.≈1 in 48K—Кукса1
CN China≈480 est.≈1 in 2.9M—Кукса1
BY Belarus≈470 est.≈1 in 20K—Кукса14
PL Poland2991 in 128K164Kuksa10
KZ Kazakhstan≈240 est.≈1 in 79K142Кукса29
KG Kyrgyzstan≈49 est.≈1 in 121K—Кукса8

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: 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Russians, by region of residence; 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kuksa is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Kukša

  • Estonian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Latvia

    Also written Kukša

  • Latvian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, Lithuania

    Languages: Latvian, Lithuanian

    Also written Kukša

21 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)

Kuksa is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Finnish, A type of drinking cup normally made from carved wood. Often given as presents.

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

  • In Latvian, Vērtspapīrs, kas apliecina tā īpašnieka dalības tiesības kādā kalnrūpniecības uzņēmumā, kura pamatkapitāls parasti sadalās 100-1000 daļās (vācu "Kux", angļu "share in a mine")

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Lithuanian, Plg. liet. kuksė „ranka su nutraukta plaštaka; menkas, silpnas, sulinkęs žmogus; mažas storas žmogus ar gyvulys“ (LKŽ VI 801).

    as a wordVanagas, Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

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)

FormalDear Kuksa,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Kuksa
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026164—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—164#19,725
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026135—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—135#22,995

Reference works 4

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 Kuksa?
A machine transcription gives /kuksə/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
What does the name Kuksa mean?
Recorded meaning: Plg. liet. kuksa. „ranka su nutraukta plaštaka; menkas, silpnas, sulinkęs žmogus; mažas storas žmogus ar gyvulys“ (LKŽ VI 801)
In which country does Kuksa have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.4 thousand people named Кукса in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Kuksa?
In Poland, the national register counted 299 people named Kuksa in 2026, about 1 in 128 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, “Kuksa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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