Kuyava
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/kujɑvə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kuyava is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 184Kas Куява(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 2.8Kas Kujawa
- NONorway1 in 85Kas Kujawa
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 Kuyava 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 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 63 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
13,630 named Kujawa, 2026
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland, as Kujawa
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Куява in UA Ukraine, RU Russia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kuyava 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 13,630as Kujawa | 1 in 2.8K | 6.9K | — | 1 |
| US United States | 3,039as Kujawa | 1 in 109K | 3K | Kuyava | 17 |
| BR Brazil | 669as Kuiava | 1 in 316K | 669 | — | — |
| UA Ukraine | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 184K | — | Куява | 16 |
| RU Russia | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Куява | 63 |
| NO Norway | 64as Kujawa | 1 in 85K | 64 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 45as Kujawa | 1 in 124K | 45 | — | — |
13,630 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 94 | #66,338 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #227,577 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Kuyava?
- A machine transcription gives /kujɑvə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kuyava have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Kujawa, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kuyava most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Kuyava itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Poland's: the national register counts about 1 in 2.8 thousand people named Kujawa.
- How common is the name Kuyava?
- In Poland, the national register counted 13,630 people named Kujawa in 2026, about 1 in 2.8 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kuyava?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kuyavaThe 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, “Kuyava”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.