Żabka
surname · Latin script
Meaning: diminutive of żaba; young or small frog
/ʐapka/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Żabka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Senegal than in any other country.
- SNSenegal≈1 in 6.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- SKSlovakia1 in 9.9K
- CZCzechia1 in 31K
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.
- Senegal (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 133 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Senegal, 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 Zabka in SK Slovakia, CZ Czechia, SN Senegal and 1 more.
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)
diminutive of żaba; young or small frog
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Żabka 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SN Senegal | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Zabka | 1 |
| PL Poland | 564 | 1 in 68K | 294 | Żabka | 21 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 182K | — | Zabka | 1 |
| SK Slovakia | 550 | 1 in 9.9K | 550 | Zabka | 15 |
| CZ Czechia | 350 | 1 in 31K | 350 | Zabka | 19 |
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: JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); MVČR — living population register 2017; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Marek Zabkab. 1955PLPolish arachnologist
- Boris Žabkab. 1977SKSlovak ice hockey defenceman
- Aneta ŻabkaPLPolish researcher
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 7 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 294 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 294 | #11,358 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 270 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 270 | #12,121 |
Reference works 5
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
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 Żabka mean, and where does it come from?
- diminutive of żaba; young or small frog Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Żabka?
- A machine transcription gives /ʐapka/ (IPA) for Polish.
- In which country does Żabka have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Żabka in Senegal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zabka.
- How common is the name Żabka?
- In Poland, the national register counted 564 people named Żabka in 2026, about 1 in 68 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%BCabkaThe 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, “Żabka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.