Cholak
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Cholak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 39Kas Чолак(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 156Kas Чолак
- PLPoland1 in 281K
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 Cholak 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.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 100 (measured from records)
- 1 in 281K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 named Чолак, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Чолак in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, MD Moldova.
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 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cholak 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Чолак | 27 |
| RU Russia | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 156K | — | Чолак | 100 |
| HR Croatia | 779as Čolak | 1 in 5.4K | 779 | — | 2 |
| US United States | 293 | 1 in 1.1M | 293 | Cholak | 22 |
| PL Poland | 136 | 1 in 281K | 72 | Cholak | 18 |
| MD Moldova | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Чолак | 4 |
| SI Slovenia | 26as Čolak | 1 in 81K | 26 | — | 1 |
| MK North Macedonia | 24as Чолак | 1 in 89K | 24 | — | 1 |
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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); State Statistical Office — living population names. 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)
- Edward "Moose" Cholakb. 1930USAmerican professional wrestler
- Bariša Čolakb. 1956BAnot in their usual nameBosnia and Herzegovina politician
- Mateo Čolakb. 1998BAnot in their usual nameCroatian basketball player (born 1998)
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 14 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 293 | #67,318 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 259 | #79,345 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 254 | #71,610 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 72 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 72 | #38,506 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 64 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 64 | #41,556 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
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
- In which country does Cholak have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Чолак in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Cholak most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cholak is densest in Poland — about 1 in 281 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Cholak?
- In the United States, the national register counted 293 people named Cholak in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Cholak?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cholakThe 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, “Cholak”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.