How common is the surname Kula?

3,012 people in the United States had the surname Kula in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 102,505 Americans. It ranked 10,631st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Kula?

In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Kula identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.4% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

Is the surname Kula getting more or less common?

More common. 2,190 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,012 in 2010, up 38%.

The surname Kula

A place surname, carried by 3,012 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex K400

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kula is more common than 93.4% of them.

Origin

* Slavic origin: as a Czech, Polish, and Slovak surname, see Polish kula (“ball”). * Also as a Czech surname, shortened from Mikuláš, the Czech form of Nicholas. * As a Jewish Belarusian surname, from the placename Kulya.

Kula is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,012 people named Kula in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 102,505 Americans. That is up 38% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,190.

#10,631

rank among US surnames

3,012

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+37.5%

change since 2000 (was #12,883)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,626	Leclerc	3,014	102,437
#10,628	Stefan	3,013	102,471
#10,631	Kula	3,012	102,505
#10,636	Schermerhorn	3,011	102,539
#10,638	Pearlman	3,009	102,607

Who is named Kula

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

87% of people named Kula identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.4% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 87%
Asian and Pacific Islander 5.4%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.5%
Two or more races 1.9%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Kula

Kula has the Soundex code K400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K400.

Questions

Where does the surname Kula come from?: * Slavic origin: as a Czech, Polish, and Slovak surname, see Polish kula (“ball”). * Also as a Czech surname, shortened from Mikuláš, the Czech form of Nicholas. * As a Jewish Belarusian surname, from the placename Kulya.
How common is the surname Kula?: 3,012 people in the United States had the surname Kula in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 102,505 Americans. It ranked 10,631st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kula?: In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Kula identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.4% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
What type of surname is Kula?: Kula is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Kula getting more or less common?: More common. 2,190 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,012 in 2010, up 38%.