Kulesha
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kuəɫzhə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kulesha is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 31Kas Кулеша(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 405Kas Кулеша
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 20M
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 Kulesha 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 91 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20M (inferred from the name graph)
13,771 named Kulesza, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Кулеша in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, BY Belarus and Kulesza in US United States.
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 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kulesha 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 13,771as Kulesza | 1 in 2.8K | 6.9K | Kulesha | 6 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Кулеша | 30 |
| US United States | 1,166as Kulesza | 1 in 285K | 1.2K | Kulesza | 5 |
| RU Russia | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 405K | — | Кулеша | 91 |
| BY Belarus | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Кулеша | 10 |
| NO Norway | 88as Kulesza | 1 in 62K | 88 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 58as Kulesza | 1 in 176K | 58 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 20M | listed | — | 2 |
13,771 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026, counting the spelling kulesza. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
- Gary Kuleshab. 1954CACanadian composer
- Iryna Kuleshab. 1986BYBelarusian weightlifter
- Artyom Kuleshab. 1990RURussian footballer
- Eugene Kuleshab. 2000GBresearcher
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 7 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 92 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 92 | #32,049 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 83 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 83 | #34,260 |
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
- How do you pronounce Kulesha?
- A machine transcription gives /kuəɫzhə/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- In which country does Kulesha have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Kulesza, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kulesha?
- In Poland, the national register counted 13,771 people named Kulesza in 2026, about 1 in 2.8 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kuleshaThe 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, “Kulesha”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.