Kulmala
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a Finnish surname from landscape
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/kulmɑlɑ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kulmala is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 664(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 193K
- NONorway1 in 547K
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 Kulmala 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.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 41 (measured from records)
- 1 in 664 (inferred from the name graph)
8,396 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled กุลมาลา in TH Thailand.
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)a Finnish surname from landscape
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kulmala 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | 8,396 | 1 in 664 | 8.4K | — | 2 |
| TH Thailand | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 256K | register #41,819 | กุลมาลา | 41 |
| SE Sweden | 53 | 1 in 193K | 53 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 10 | 1 in 547K | 10 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | — | — |
8,396 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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)- Untamo Kulmalab. 1905FIFinnish association football player (1905-1987)
- Seppo Kulmalab. 1949FIFinnish actor
- Markku Kulmalab. 1958FIFinnish aerosol and environmental physicist
- Juha Kulmalab. 1962FIFinnish poet
- Kari Kulmalab. 1965FIFinnish politician
- Marko Kulmalab. 1967FIFinnish entrepreneur, non-fiction writer and television producer
- Vesa Kulmalab. 1986FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Mika Kulmalab. 1989FIFinnish ski jumper
- Rasmus Kulmalab. 1994FIFinnish-Hungarian ice hockey player
- Lauri Kulmalab. 1999FIFinnish ice hockey player
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 8.4K | #198 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 3.8K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 53 | #11,970 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 10 | #55,002 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6 | #89,778 |
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
- What does the name Kulmala mean, and where does it come from?
- a Finnish surname from landscape Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kulmala?
- A machine transcription gives /kulmɑlɑ/ (IPA) for Finnish.
- In which country does Kulmala have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 8.4 thousand people named Kulmala, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kulmala most common?
- Kulmala is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 664 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kulmala?
- In Finland, the national register counted 8,396 people named Kulmala, about 1 in 664 residents.
What do you want to know about Kulmala?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kulmalaThe 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, “Kulmala”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.