Čolak
surname · Latin script
Meaning: »sakat u jednu ruku, kome je jedna ruka defektna«
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tʂo˦˨lak/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Čolak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 85th most common surname.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 818(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 37K
- FRFrance≈1 in 101K
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)
- Sources
- 129 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 818 (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Colak in DE Germany, FR France, HR Croatia and 1 more and Çolak in TR Türkiye, SY Syria, CY Cyprus.
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)
»sakat u jednu ruku, kome je jedna ruka defektna«
Sources 1
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Čolak 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 | #85 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 818 | — | Çolak | 100 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Colak | 92 |
| HR Croatia | — | 779 | 1 in 5.4K | 779 | Colak | 42 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Çolak | 3 |
| FR France | — | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 101K | 123 | Colak | 129 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Colak | 10 |
| CY Cyprus | #196 | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Çolak | 7 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Bariša Čolakb. 1956BABosnia and Herzegovina politician
- Mateo Čolakb. 1998BACroatian basketball player (born 1998)
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 8 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 779 | #779 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 721 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Čolak?
- A machine transcription gives /tʂo˦˨lak/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- What does the name Čolak mean?
- Recorded meaning: »sakat u jednu ruku, kome je jedna ruka defektna«
- In which country does Čolak have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 100 thousand people named Čolak in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled çolak.
- How common is the name Čolak?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 779 people named Čolak in 2021, about 1 in 5.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Čolak compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Čolak is the 85th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Čolak?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C4%8DolakThe 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, “Čolak” — the 85th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.