Šiljak

surname · Latin script

Meaning: spike

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

Šiljak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bosnia & Herzegovina than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 22K(inferred from the name graph)
  • HRCroatia1 in 59K
  • MEMontenegro≈1 in 78K

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.

Bosnia & Herzegovina (inferred from the name graph)

≈180 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
17 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)

Bosnia & Herzegovina, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ŠiljakLatin(measured from records)
ШиљакCyrillic(measured from records)

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)

spike

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Šiljak 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 Šiljak is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina≈180 est.≈1 in 22K—Šiljak11
RS Serbia≈76 est.≈1 in 93K—Šiljak9
HR Croatia721 in 59K72Šiljak17
SE Sweden221 in 464K22—1
CH Switzerland111 in 764K11——
ME Montenegro≈8 est.≈1 in 78K—Šiljak2

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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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)

Šiljak is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Germany, Croatia

    Languages: English, Croatian, German

    Also written Siljak

  • Slovenian name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Siljak

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Bosnia & Herzegovina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Siljak

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Siljak, S̆iljak

  • Hungarian name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Siljak

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Siljak

  • French name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Siljak

  • Estonian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Siljak

3 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Šiljak 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 Serbo-Croatian, »1° drveno šilo, zašiljasto drvce, kakva god zašiljena stvar, da se njome može bosti, 2° prezime«

    as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Vojo Šiljak, b. 1941Ermin Šiljak, b. 1973Vanja Šiljak, b. 1995

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)

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

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Šiljak
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202172#10,284
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202151—

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

What does the name Šiljak mean, and where does it come from?
spike Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Šiljak?
A machine transcription gives /ʃǐːʎak/ (IPA) for Croatian.
In which country does Šiljak have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 178 people named Šiljak in Bosnia & Herzegovina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled šiljak.
How common is the name Šiljak?
In Croatia, the national register counted 72 people named Šiljak in 2021, about 1 in 59 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, “Šiljak”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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