Mulka
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mulka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: nickname from the dialect term mulka ‘little kiss’ or ‘whey’.
- INIndia1 in 88M(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 78K
- ARArgentina1 in 353K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 36 (measured from records)
- 1 in 78K (inferred from the name graph)
489 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
nickname from the dialect term mulka ‘little kiss’ or ‘whey’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mulka 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 | 489 | 1 in 78K | 245 | — | — |
| US United States | 466 | 1 in 714K | 466 | Mulka | 20 |
| AR Argentina | 129 | 1 in 353K | 129 | — | — |
| IN India | 15 | 1 in 88M | 15 | Mulka | 36 |
| CZ Czechia | 11 | 1 in 973K | 11 | — | — |
489 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Mulka 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 Latvian, pēc islāma tiesībām brīvs īpašums, īpaši privāts zemes īpašums, ar ko īpašniekam tiesības brīvi izrīkoties
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Vārstelis, žogā ierīkota atvere
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Kaudze
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Posms
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Robert Mulkab. 1895DEHolocaust perpetrator (1895–1969)
- Rolf Mulkab. 1927DEGerman sailor
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 466 | #45,804 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 460 | #49,411 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 432 | #46,426 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 245 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 245 | #13,541 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 244 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 244 | #13,361 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 129 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 109 | #21,545 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 15 | #95,806 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 11 | #77,990 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 11 | #18,088 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
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 Mulka mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname from the dialect term mulka ‘little kiss’ or ‘whey’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Mulka have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 489 people named Mulka, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Mulka most common?
- Mulka is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 78 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mulka?
- In Poland, the national register counted 489 people named Mulka in 2026, about 1 in 78 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/mulkaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Mulka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.