Kusa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Bodhisatta son of Okkāka and Sīlavatī, king of Kusāvatī; hero of the Kusa story (the bride of Pabhāvatī, daughter of Madda of Sāgala)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/kusa/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Kusa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- SKSlovakia1 in 12K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 18K
- PLPoland1 in 36K
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 Kusa itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
1,049 people, 2026
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovakia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)Bodhisatta son of Okkāka and Sīlavatī, king of Kusāvatī; hero of the Kusa story (the bride of Pabhāvatī, daughter of Madda of Sāgala).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Kusa is found
(measured from records)Kusa 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.
1,049 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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)Kusa is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Polish, feminine nominative/vocative singular of kusy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
» Kumari (N)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
sacred kusa grass
as a nameA Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
In lua, used with mubidi as obj., meaning to amend, be better, convalesce, get or become better or well, improve in health, recover, be resuscitated or revived. .
as a wordGrammar and Dictionary of the Buluba-Lulua Language
In Latvian, third-person singular/plural past indicative of kust
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)- Jonas Kusab. 1909LTLithuanian translator
- Jacek KusaPLPolish pediatric cardiologist
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)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kusa mean, and where does it come from?
- Bodhisatta son of Okkāka and Sīlavatī, king of Kusāvatī; hero of the Kusa story (the bride of Pabhāvatī, daughter of Madda of Sāgala). Recorded by Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh).
- How do you pronounce Kusa?
- It depends on the language: in Swahili /kusa/; in Turkish /kusa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kusa?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Kusa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kusa. After it come Syria, Kenya, Czechia and Slovakia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Kusa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kusa is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 12 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kusa?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,049 people named Kusa in 2026, about 1 in 36 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/kusaThe 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, “Kusa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.