Kupka

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Polish, Ukrainian, Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic), and German (of Slavic origin): nickname from Polish and Ukrainian kupka ‘small heap’, a diminutive of kupa ‘pile’

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 104Kas Купка(inferred from the name graph)
  • CZCzechia1 in 5.6K
  • SKSlovakia1 in 14K

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 Kupka 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)

2,416 people, 2026

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
72 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 5.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KupkaLatin(measured from records)
КупкаCyrillic(measured from records)

Locally spelled Купка in UA Ukraine.

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)

Polish, Ukrainian, Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic), and German (of Slavic origin): nickname from Polish and Ukrainian kupka ‘small heap’, a diminutive of kupa ‘pile’.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kupka 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 Kupka is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland—2,4161 in 16K1.2KKupka51
CZ Czechia#7441,9141 in 5.6K1.9KKupka52
US United States—7761 in 429K776Kupka30
UA Ukraine—≈420 est.≈1 in 104K—Купка24
SK Slovakia—3901 in 14K390Kupka31
FI Finland—331 in 169K33—1

2,416 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)

Kupka is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Croatian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Купка

36 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)

Kupka 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 German, Slawischer Familienname, wohl als Diminutiv/Hypokoristikum gebildet; eingedeutschte Form. Bearer count: 1124.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen

  • In German, 1124 Bearer; unveränderte slaw. Ausgangsform mit Suffix -ka, Gegenstück zu den -ke-Patronymen.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen

  • In Russian, dim of Kupa.

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

  • In dsb, island (small)

    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)

1850190019502000Franz Kupka, b. 1855Josef Kupka, b. 1862František Kupka, b. 1871Theofil Kupka, b. 1885Karel Kupka, b. 1905Jiří Svetozar Kupka, b. 1921Karel Kupka, b. 1927Pavel Kupka, b. 1946Martin Kupka, b. 1975Tomas Kupka, b. 1984

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)

FormalDear Kupka,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 29 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Kupka
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—1.9K#626
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—1.9K#627
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—1.9K#627
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20261.2K—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—1.2K#2,484
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20261.2K—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—1.2K#2,480
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010776#30,202
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000761#29,296
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020714#34,217
SK SlovakiaJÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census)1995390—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—33#32,295

Reference works 6

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 Kupka mean, and where does it come from?
Polish, Ukrainian, Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic), and German (of Slavic origin): nickname from Polish and Ukrainian kupka ‘small heap’, a diminutive of kupa ‘pile’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Kupka?
A machine transcription gives /ˈkəpkə/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Kupka have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Kupka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kupka.
Where is Kupka most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kupka is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 5.6 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Kupka?
In Poland, the national register counted 2,416 people named Kupka in 2026, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
How common is Kupka compared with other names?
In Czechia, Kupka is the 744th most common surname of 114,573 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Kupka” — the 744th most common surname in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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