Kula Family History
Kula Name Meaning
Polish Czech Sorbian and Jewish (from Poland): from Polish Sorbian and dialect Czech kula (standard Czech koule) ‘ball’ in Sorbian also ‘lump’ and ‘bump’ probably applied as a nickname for a rotund person. Czech and Sorbian: from a short form of the local equivalents such as Czech Mikuláš of the personal name Nicholas . The Sorbian surname (in both senses; see also 1 above) is found mainly in Germanized forms (see Kuhle and Kulla ). Slovak (also Kuľa): variant of Gula a cognate of 1 above. Jewish (from Belarus): habitational name from Kulya now in Belarus. Turkish: ornamental name or nickname from kula ‘russet’ also ‘dun’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022