Šostakas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Plg. lenk. Szostak (SSNO V 319), brus
Šostakas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Lithuania than in any other country.
- LTLithuania≈1 in 34Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Lithuania (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)
≈86 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Lithuania, 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 Sostakas in US United States, GB United Kingdom.
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)Plg. lenk. Szostak (SSNO V 319), brus. Ilacmax, Ilacmakoy, Ilocmak, ukr. INocmak (M. bupbina, 1969, c. 469), rus. Šostak (B. Unbegaun, 1972, p. 288).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Vanagas, Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Šostakas 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LT Lithuania | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 34K | Šostakas | 8 |
| US United States | — | — | Sostakas | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | Sostakas | 4 |
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.
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)Šostakas is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Lithuanian, vad. Šeštokas), Vvs, Zp (žm. vad. Šeštūkas), Žsl;
as a wordVanagas, Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Plg. lenk. Szostak (SSNO V 319), brus. Мастак, Шастакоу, Шостак, ukr. Шостак (M. Бирыла, 1969, c. 469), rus. Šostak (B. Unbegaun, 1972, p. 288)
as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 0 countries.
Reference works 2
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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 Šostakas mean?
- Recorded meaning: Plg. lenk. Szostak (SSNO V 319), brus.
- In which country does Šostakas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 86 people named Šostakas in Lithuania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled šostakas.
- How common is the name Šostakas?
- Mondonomo estimates about 86 people in Lithuania have Šostakas as their first surname, about 1 in 34 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%A1ostakasThe 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, “Šostakas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.