Shulga
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Ivashko Shulga, peasant
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʃʌlɡə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shulga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M(measured from records)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 1.8Kas Шульга
- RURussia≈1 in 6.9Kas Шульга
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 Shulga 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.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 157 (measured from records)
- 1 in 171K (inferred from the name graph)
≈24,000 named Шульга, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Шульга in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus and 1 more.
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)
Ivashko Shulga, peasant. 15th Century.
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shulga 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | #107 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Шульга | 50 |
| RU Russia | #780 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | — | Шульга | 157 |
| PL Poland | — | 1,708as Shulha | 1 in 22K | 913 | — | 3 |
| BY Belarus | #291 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | — | Шульга | 22 |
| TW Taiwan | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Шульга | 1 |
| US United States | — | 204 | 1 in 1.6M | 240 | Shulga | 108 |
| NO Norway | — | 32 | 1 in 171K | 32 | — | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Maria Shulga-Nesterenkob. 1891UASoviet geologist
- Yuriy Shulhab. 1966UAUkrainian speed skater
- Volodymyr Shulhab. 1973UApolitician
- Oleg Shulgab. 1979UAUkrainian actor
- Veronika Shulhab. 1981UAUkrainian footballer
- Dmytro Shulgab. 1990UAParalympian
- Max Shulgab. 2002UAUkrainian basketball player (born 2002)
- Evgeny ShulgaILresearcher
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 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 240 | #84,231 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 204 | #90,495 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 138 | #116,835 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 81 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 81 | #35,070 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 77 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 77 | #36,871 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 32 | #34,221 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (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
- Where does the name Shulga come from?
- Ivashko Shulga, peasant. 15th Century. Recorded by A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996).
- How do you pronounce Shulga?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃʌlɡə/ (IPA) for Russian.
- What does the name Shulga mean?
- Recorded meaning: Ivashko Shulga, peasant.
- In which country does Shulga have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 24 thousand people named Шульга in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Shulga most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shulga is densest in Norway — about 1 in 171 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Shulga?
- In the United States, the national register counted 204 people named Shulga in 2010, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
- How common is Shulga compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Shulga is the 107th most common surname of 1,177,784 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shulgaThe 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, “Shulga” — the 107th most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.