Bosák
surname · Latin script
Bosák is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From bosy + -ak.
- PLPoland1 in 18K(measured from records)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 24Kas Босак
- HRCroatia1 in 5.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bosák 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.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 103 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.3K (inferred from the name graph)
101,267 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bosak in IN India, US United States, PL Poland and Босак in UA Ukraine.
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)
From bosy + -ak.
Sources 2
- Wiktionary
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bosák 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 101,267 | 1 in 13K | 101K | Bosak | 1 |
| PL Poland | 2,111 | 1 in 18K | 1.1K | Bosak | 68 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Босак | 31 |
| US United States | 1,212 | 1 in 274K | 1.2K | Bosak | 53 |
| HR Croatia | 796 | 1 in 5.3K | 796 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 605 | 1 in 18K | 607 | Bosák | 28 |
| SK Slovakia | 533 | 1 in 10K | 533 | Bosák | 31 |
101,267 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Bosák 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 zlw-ocs, one who is barefoot
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Emanuel Bosákb. 1924CZCzech politician, educator and sports official
- Nándor Bosákb. 1939HUfirtst bishop of Debrecen-Nyíregyháza
- Ján Bosákb. 1939Slovak linguist
- Pavel Bosákb. 1951CZCzech geologist and speleologist
- Jaromír Bosákb. 1965CZCzech sport publicist
- Pavel Bosákb. 1982CZCzech basketball player (born 1982)
- Jiří Bosákb. 1982CZCzech musician
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 607 | #2,353 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 605 | #2,455 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 533 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #217,646 |
Reference works 2
- 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 Bosák mean, and where does it come from?
- From bosy + -ak. Recorded by Wiktionary and Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74).
- In which country does Bosák have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 101 thousand people named Bosák, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bosak.
- Where is Bosák most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bosák is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 5.3 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bosák?
- In India, the national register counted 101,267 people named Bosák, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bos%C3%A1kThe 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, “Bosák”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.