Kumala
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kumˈala/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kumala is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 7.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 59K
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 143K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 175 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈36,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Kumala 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | #363 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | listed | Kumala | 175 |
| PL Poland | — | 654 | 1 in 59K | 345 | — | — |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 224K | — | Kumala | 12 |
| US United States | — | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 3.4M | listed | Kumala | 36 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 143K | — | Kumala | 2 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 168K | — | Kumala | 8 |
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); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)
Kumala 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 awg, sweet potato
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Aleksander Kumalab. 1993PLchess 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)
Attested in 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 345 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 345 | #9,630 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 309 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 309 | #10,552 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Kumala?
- A machine transcription gives /kumˈala/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
- In which country does Kumala have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 36 thousand people named Kumala in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kumala.
- How common is the name Kumala?
- In Poland, the national register counted 654 people named Kumala in 2026, about 1 in 59 thousand residents.
- How common is Kumala compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Kumala is the 363rd most common surname of 451,395 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kumala?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kumalaThe 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, “Kumala” — the 363rd most common surname in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.