Kurkul
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A rich or supposedly rich peasant, targeted during Soviet collectivization, especially in the context of Ukraine or Ukrainians; kulak
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/kɝkəl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kurkul is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belarus than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 461K(measured from records)
- BYBelarus≈1 in 89Kas Куркуль
- RURussia≈1 in 6Mas Куркуль
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 Kurkul 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.
- Belarus (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 32 (measured from records)
- 1 in 461K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110 named Куркуль, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Куркуль in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus.
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 rich or supposedly rich peasant, targeted during Soviet collectivization, especially in the context of Ukraine or Ukrainians; kulak.
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)Kurkul 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BY Belarus | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Куркуль | 7 |
| PL Poland | 83 | 1 in 461K | 45 | — | — |
| RU Russia | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 6M | — | Куркуль | 32 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 6M | — | Куркуль | 5 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Kurkul | 4 |
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 45 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 45 | #53,999 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 38 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 38 | #59,811 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
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 Kurkul mean, and where does it come from?
- A rich or supposedly rich peasant, targeted during Soviet collectivization, especially in the context of Ukraine or Ukrainians; kulak. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kurkul?
- A machine transcription gives /kɝkəl/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kurkul have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 107 people named Куркуль in Belarus, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kurkul most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kurkul is densest in Poland — about 1 in 461 thousand people — even though Belarus holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kurkul?
- In Poland, the national register counted 83 people named Kurkul in 2026, about 1 in 461 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/kurkulThe 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, “Kurkul”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.