Çalak
surname · Latin script
Çalak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 171K(measured from records)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 190K
- BEBelgium1 in 2.3M
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 14 (measured from records)
- 1 in 171K (inferred from the name graph)
≈460 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Calak in PL Poland, US United States.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Çalak is found
(measured from records)Çalak 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 186K | — | Çalak | 14 |
| PL Poland | 224 | 1 in 171K | 113 | Calak | 14 |
| US United States | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 8.6M | listed | Calak | 3 |
| BE Belgium | 5 | 1 in 2.3M | 5 | — | 3 |
| CY Cyprus | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 305K | — | Çalak | 3 |
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); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)Çalak 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 Kurdish, Active, agile, skillful, one who rushes quickly to every task
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Çalak?
- Mondonomo estimates about 459 people named Çalak in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled çalak. After it come Poland, United States, Belgium and Cyprus; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Çalak most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Çalak is densest in Poland — about 1 in 171 thousand people — even though Türkiye holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Çalak?
- In Poland, the national register counted 224 people named Çalak in 2026, about 1 in 171 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Çalak?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A7alakThe 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, “Çalak”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.