Find out how popular the last name Kulik is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Kulik.

Kulik, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Kulik surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Kulik in America

Kulik is the 14076th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Kulik surname appeared 2,137 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 people would have the surname Kulik.

We can also compare 2010 data for Kulik to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Kulik

The surname Kulik is of Polish origin, dating back to the 16th century. It is derived from the Polish word "kula," meaning "ball" or "sphere," and likely referred to someone who worked with spherical objects or lived near a round or spherical geographical feature.

The earliest recorded instance of the name Kulik can be found in the Polish town of Krakow in the late 1500s, where it appeared in local tax records and church documents. The name was particularly prevalent in the regions of Lesser Poland and Silesia, but also spread to other parts of the country over time.

One notable early reference to the name Kulik comes from the 17th-century Polish military records, which mention a soldier named Jan Kulik who fought in the Polish-Swedish War of 1626-1629. Another historical figure bearing this surname was Michał Kulik, a prominent merchant and landowner from the city of Lviv (then part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth) who lived in the late 17th century.

In the 18th century, the name Kulik was recorded in various Polish nobility registers and land ownership records. One such example is Franciszek Kulik, a wealthy landowner from the Podkarpackie region, who was born in 1732 and died in 1801.

As the name spread throughout the 19th century, it also began to appear in other parts of Eastern Europe, particularly in areas with significant Polish communities. One notable bearer of the name from this period was Kazimierz Kulik, a Polish-born mathematician and astronomer who worked in Russia and made important contributions to the study of comets. He was born in 1843 and died in 1911.

Another historical figure with the surname Kulik was Leonid Kulik, a Russian mineralogist and meteorite researcher who lived from 1883 to 1942. He is best known for leading the first expedition to investigate the Tunguska event, a massive explosion in remote Siberia that was caused by a meteorite or comet airburst in 1908.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Kulik

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Kulik.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Kulik was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Kulik has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Kulik was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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