Kabus
surname · Latin script
Meaning: German surname from mhd
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kʰabʊs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kabus is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 112K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 838K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.4M
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 Kabus 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 42 (measured from records)
- 1 in 112K (inferred from the name graph)
343 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Кабусь in UA Ukraine, RU Russia.
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)
German surname from mhd. kabea/kappua/kappia, mnd. kabūs(kōl) ‘white cabbage’; mainly indirect occupational name for a cabbage grower.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kabus 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 | 343 | 1 in 112K | 188 | Kabus | 15 |
| US United States | 109 | 1 in 3.1M | 109 | — | 1 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 869K | — | Кабусь | 12 |
| RU Russia | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 5.6M | — | Кабусь | 42 |
| DK Denmark | 7 | 1 in 838K | 7 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 4 | 1 in 2.6M | 4 | — | — |
343 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kabus is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In sjm, for someone to have run out of something (as money, or provisions when housebound during a typhoon)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Malay, mist (water or other liquid finely suspended in air)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bkd, (for food, etc.) to be insufficient, run short
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In tsg, lacking, incomplete, deficient, premature
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In bgz, all gone, finished, consumed, used up
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Wilhelm Kabusb. 1918DEGerman politician (1918-1996)
- Ronny Kabusb. 1947DEGerman historian and museologist
- Sylvia Kabusb. 1952DEGerman journalist
- Petra Kabusb. 1963DEGerman writer and literary editor
- Christine Kabusb. 1964DEGerman author
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 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 188 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 188 | #17,399 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 155 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 155 | #20,329 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 109 | #150,452 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 108 | #150,935 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 7 | #52,510 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6 | #89,778 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 4 | #57,442 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
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 Kabus come from?
- German surname from mhd. kabea/kappua/kappia, mnd. kabūs(kōl) ‘white cabbage’; mainly indirect occupational name for a cabbage grower. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen.
- How do you pronounce Kabus?
- A machine transcription gives /kʰabʊs/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Kabus mean?
- Recorded meaning: German surname from mhd.
- In which country does Kabus have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 343 people named Kabus, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kabus.
- Where is Kabus most common?
- Kabus is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 112 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kabus?
- In Poland, the national register counted 343 people named Kabus in 2026, about 1 in 112 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kabus?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kabusThe 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, “Kabus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.