Kobák

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Kobák is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from a Turkish loanword kobak ‘head’, ‘forehead’ (from Cumanian and Pechenegg quabaq or Ottoman Turkish kabak ‘pumpkin’), hence a nickname for an unsophisticated person or someone with a bald or big h.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 38K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 199K
  • HRCroatia1 in 302K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Poland (measured from records)

1,006 people, 2026

Sources
8 (measured from records)

Reference-verified

1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kobak in US United States.

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 a Turkish loanword kobak ‘head’, ‘forehead’ (from Cumanian and Pechenegg quabaq or Ottoman Turkish kabak ‘pumpkin’), hence a nickname for an unsophisticated person or someone with a bald or big head.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kobák 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 Kobák is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland1,0061 in 38K513——
US United States3801 in 875K380Kobak7
UY Uruguay171 in 199K17——
FI Finland161 in 348K16——
HR Croatia141 in 302K14——
DK Denmark71 in 838K7——

1,006 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

Kobák is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Slovak surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Kobak, Kobãk

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Kobák under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Kobák mean, and where does it come from?
from a Turkish loanword kobak ‘head’, ‘forehead’ (from Cumanian and Pechenegg quabaq or Ottoman Turkish kabak ‘pumpkin’), hence a nickname for an unsophisticated person or someone with a bald or big h… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Kobák have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Kobák, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Kobák most common?
Kobák is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 38 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Kobák?
In Poland, the national register counted 1,006 people named Kobák in 2026, about 1 in 38 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, “Kobák”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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