Mucha
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: feminine singular of mucho
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mut͡ʃa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mucha is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 85th most common surname.
- PLPoland1 in 1.6K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 130K
- SKSlovakia1 in 4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 127 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
23,911 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
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(measured from records)
nickname from mucha ‘fly’, denoting an irritating person or someone considered of no importance.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
How Mucha is read(measured from records)
Mucha is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish39%
feminine singular of mucho
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English24%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mucha in English.
- Polish13%
fly (any insect of the order Diptera)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Swahili7.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mucha in Swahili.
- German5.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mucha in German.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mucha 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 | #85 | 23,911 | 1 in 1.6K | 12K | Mucha | 127 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Mucha | 11 |
| CN China | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 363K | — | Mucha | 4 |
| US United States | — | 2,563 | 1 in 130K | 2.6K | Mucha | 126 |
| CZ Czechia | #775 | 1,775 | 1 in 6K | 1.8K | Mucha | 68 |
| SK Slovakia | #401 | 1,349 | 1 in 4K | 1.3K | Mucha | 41 |
| NO Norway | — | 174 | 1 in 31K | 174 | Mucha | 9 |
23,911 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; MVČR — living population register 2017; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Mucha is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
nickname from mucha ‘fly’, denoting an irritating person or someone considered of no importance.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In pap, child (young person)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dsb, fly (insect)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In yol, big, much
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)
- Alphonse Muchab. 1860CZCzech painter, illustrator and graphic artist (1860–1939)
- Jiri Muchab. 1915CZCzech writer (1915–1991)
- Geraldine Muchab. 1917GBCzech composer (1917–2012)
- Renata Muchab. 1933UARussian-Israeli poet
- Vitaly Mukhab. 1936UAnot in their usual nameRussian politician (1936–2005)
- Josef Muchab. 1967CZCzech soccer player
- Stanislaw Muchab. 1970PLPolish film director
- Kryštof Muchab. 1975CZCzech film producer and actor
- Anna Muchab. 1980PLPolish actress
- Ján Muchab. 1982SKSlovak association football player (1982–)
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 36 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 12K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 12K | #110 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 12K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 12K | #107 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.6K | #11,120 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.6K | #12,156 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.4K | #12,249 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1.8K | #692 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 1.8K | #692 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 1.8K | #692 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 1.3K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 174 | #9,105 |
Reference works 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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 Mucha come from?
- nickname from mucha ‘fly’, denoting an irritating person or someone considered of no importance. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Mucha?
- A machine transcription gives /mut͡ʃa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Mucha mean?
- In Spanish, feminine singular of mucho
- In which country does Mucha have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 24 thousand people named Mucha, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mucha.
- Where is Mucha most common?
- Mucha is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.6 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mucha?
- In Poland, the national register counted 23,911 people named Mucha in 2026, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Mucha compared with other names?
- In Poland, Mucha is the 85th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/muchaThe 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, “Mucha” — the 85th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.