Mukuka
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mukuka/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mukuka is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Zambia, where it is the 67th most common surname.
- ZMZambia
- ZASouth Africa
- KEKenya
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Zambia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 40 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mukuka counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZM Zambia | #67 | — | 50K | Mukuka | 40 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Mukuka | 37 |
| ZA South Africa | — | — | — | Mukuka | 11 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Mukuka | 15 |
| KE Kenya | — | — | — | Mukuka | 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: Zambia top-100 surnames (surnam.es); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Mukuka is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In kmb, Cuco
as a wordDiccionario Portuguez-Kimbundu
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)
- Mutale Mukukab. 2000ZMbadminton player
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)
Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZM Zambia | Zambia top-100 surnames (surnam.es) | — | 50K | #41 |
| ZM Zambia | ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results | 2021 | 19 | #24 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Mukuka?
- A machine transcription gives /mukuka/ (IPA) for Swahili.
- In which country does Mukuka have the most bearers?
- Mukuka is most frequently recorded in Zambia, where it is most often spelled mukuka.
- How common is Mukuka compared with other names?
- In Zambia, Mukuka is the 67th most common surname of 16,584 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mukuka?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mukukaThe 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, “Mukuka” — the 67th most common surname in Zambia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.