Kogut
surname · Polish · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kogut is a surname, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Polish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: nickname from Polish kogut or Ukrainian kohut ‘rooster’.
- PLPoland1 in 10K◐
- NONorway1 in 91K
- DKDenmark1 in 120K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈6.1K ●
- Sources
- 86 ●
- 1 in 10K ◐
across 14 countries
1.9K records
Official registry-verified
Poland
Meaning & origin●
nickname from Polish kogut or Ukrainian kohut ‘rooster’. Compare Kohut, Kohout.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #678 | 3,783△ | 942 rec. | 1 in 10K | 3.8K | Kogut | 86 |
| US United States | — | 1,600△ | 690 rec. | 1 in 208K | 1.6K | Kogut | 74 |
| BR Brazil | — | 362△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 585K | 362 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 108 | 88 rec. | — | — | Kogut | 24 |
| ES Spain | — | 78△ | 9 rec. | 1 in 641K | 78 | Kogut | 6 |
| NO Norway | — | 60△ | 4 rec. | 1 in 91K | 60 | Kogut | 3 |
| AR Argentina | — | 52 | — | 1 in 875K | 52 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 49 | — | 1 in 120K | 49 | — | — |
| EG Egypt | — | 49 | 49 rec. | — | — | Kogut | 2 |
| FI Finland | — | 37 | — | 1 in 151K | 37 | — | — |
| CA Canada | — | 26 | 21 rec. | — | — | Kogut | 14 |
| UA Ukraine | — | 22 | 6 rec. | — | — | Kogut | 10 |
Roughly 3.8K people in Poland bear this name (about 1 in 10K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Polish26K58%
- English12K27%
- Swahili9912%
- Spanish9782%
- Portuguese9492%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Polish | 25,754 | 58% |
| English | 11,858 | 27% |
| Swahili | 991 | 2% |
| Spanish | 978 | 2% |
| Portuguese | 949 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Kogut 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 Polish, rooster (male chicken)
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1921 | 12 |
| 1931 | 32 |
| 1941 | 22 |
| 1951 | 21 |
| 1961 | 15 |
| 1971 | 9 |
| 1981 | 16 |
| 1991 | 10 |
FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 8 years between 1921–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Maksymilian Kogutb. 1883PLPolish architect
- Adam Kogutb. 1895PLPolish association football player (1895-1940)
- Bogusław Kogutb. 1925PLPolish poet (1925–1987)
- John Kogutb. 1945USAmerican physicist
- Bruce Kogutb. 1953USAmerican business theorist
- Stanisław Kogutb. 1953PLPolish politician
- Sandra Kogutb. 1965BRBrazilian film director (born 1965)
- Vladimir Kogutb. 1966UAassociation football player
- Paul Kogutb. 1966USAmerican jazz musician
- Oded Kogutb. 2001ILIsraeli cylist
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●
Attested in 26 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3.8K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3.8K | #571 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3.7K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3.7K | #615 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.6K | #17,572 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.6K | #16,562 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #17,663 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 362 | #22,616 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 78 | #32,944 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 78 | #32,674 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 60 | #23,005 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 52 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 35 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Kogut?
- We estimate roughly 6.1 thousand people bear Kogut (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
- In which country does Kogut have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 3.8 thousand people bear Kogut in Poland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled kogut.
- Where is Kogut most common?
- Kogut is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 10 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is Kogut compared with other names?
- In Poland, Kogut is the 678th most common surname of 614,248 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Kogut mean?
- Recorded meaning: nickname from Polish kogut or Ukrainian kohut ‘rooster’.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Kogut” — the 678th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.