Šijak

surname · Latin script

/ʂijak/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Šijak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 30K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 934K
  • PLPoland1 in 5.5M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Šijak itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Croatia (measured from records)

139 people, 2021

Sources
13 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sijak in US United States, AT Austria and Siyak in IN India.

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 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Šijak 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.

Where Šijak is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia1391 in 30K139——
IN India32as Siyak1 in 41M32Siyak5
CH Switzerland91 in 934K9—1
PL Poland71 in 5.5M4—1
US United States——listedSijak13
AT Austria———Sijak9

139 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Šijak is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Sijak

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Sijak

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Sijak

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Sijak

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Sijak

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalPoštovani Šijak,Dear Šijak, (English)
InformalPoštovani Šijak,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Šijak
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021139#5,918
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)2021119—

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Šijak?
A machine transcription gives /ʂijak/ (IPA) for Croatian.
In which country does Šijak have the most bearers?
In Croatia, the national register counted about 139 people named Šijak, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Šijak most common?
Šijak is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 30 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Šijak?
In Croatia, the national register counted 139 people named Šijak in 2021, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.

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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, “Šijak”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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