Kumis
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Alternative spelling of koumiss
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kumis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Costa Rica than in any other country.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 5.1M(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Costa Rica (measured from records)
- Sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.1M (inferred from the name graph)
1 people
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Alternative spelling of koumiss.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Kumis is read(measured from records)
Kumis is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English55%
Alternative spelling of koumiss.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Indonesian28%
moustache (hair on upper lip)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kumis 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Kumis | 10 |
| MY Malaysia | — | — | — | Kumis | 3 |
1 people counted by TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Kumis is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In kxd, synonym of sumit (“moustache”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, koumiss (fermented milk drink from Central Asia)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In zlm, hair about the lips, moustache
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In tay, hair (of animal), fur
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #30,754 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kumis mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative spelling of koumiss. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Kumis?
- In the etymology graph, Koumiss is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Kumis have the most bearers?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted about 1 people named Kumis, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kumis most common?
- Kumis is densest in Costa Rica, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.1 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kumis?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 1 people named Kumis, about 1 in 5.1 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kumisThe 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, “Kumis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.