Kocák
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Kocák is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Turkish Koçak.
- NLNetherlands1 in 19K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 30K
- BEBelgium1 in 59K
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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 23 (measured from records)
- 1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
913 people, 2007
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Kocak 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)Borrowed from Turkish Koçak.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kocák 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 913 | 1 in 19K | 913 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 619 | 1 in 537K | 663 | Kocak | 15 |
| BE Belgium | 198 | 1 in 59K | 368 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 194 | 1 in 30K | 194 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 155 | 1 in 247K | 83 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 141 | 1 in 60K | 141 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 88 | 1 in 62K | 88 | — | — |
913 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Kocák 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 Hungarian, nominative plural of koca
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)- Peter Kocákb. 1961SKSlovak academic painter
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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Kocák mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Turkish Koçak. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Kocák have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 913 people named Kocák, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kocák most common?
- Kocák is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 19 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kocák?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 913 people named Kocák in 2007, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/koc%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, “Kocák”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.