Sulava
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/sələvə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sulava is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Georgia than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 211K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 563K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 2M
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 Sulava 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.
- Georgia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 49 (measured from records)
- 1 in 211K (inferred from the name graph)
664 named სულავა
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Croatia
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
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)Sulava 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.
664 people counted by Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API), counting the spelling სულავა. 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: Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)Sulava 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 Finnish, melting
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)- Giorgi Sulavab. 1997GEGeorgian freestyle wrestler
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #188,503 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 4 | #140,117 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #400,255 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
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 Sulava?
- A machine transcription gives /sələvə/ (IPA) for Georgian.
- In which country does Sulava have the most bearers?
- In Georgia, the national register counted about 664 people named სულავა, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sulava most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sulava is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 211 thousand people — even though Georgia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sulava?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 20 people named Sulava in 2021, about 1 in 211 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/sulavaThe 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, “Sulava”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.