Lišak

surname · Latin script

Lišak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From lis (“fox”) + -ak (suffix).

rarermore common
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 3.7Kas Лисак(inferred from the name graph)
  • RURussia≈1 in 448Kas Лисак
  • HRCroatia1 in 9.7K

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 Lišak 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)

≈12,000 named Лисак, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
89 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 9.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

LišakLatin(measured from records)
ЛисакCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Lisak in PL Poland, US United States, CZ Czechia and Лисак in UA Ukraine, RU Russia.

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 lis (“fox”) + -ak (suffix).

Sources 2

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lišak 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 Lišak is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
UA Ukraine#404≈12,000 est.≈1 in 3.7K—Лисак43
PL Poland—1,1771 in 33K600Lisak48
US United States—5051 in 659K539Lisak26
HR Croatia—4361 in 9.7K436——
RU Russia—≈320 est.≈1 in 448K—Лисак89
CZ Czechia—261 in 412K26Lisak12
CH Switzerland—241 in 350K24—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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • Croatian surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Canada, Israel

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Lisak, Лисак, Lisâk

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 Lišak under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Lišak mean, and where does it come from?
From lis (“fox”) + -ak (suffix). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
In which country does Lišak have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Лисак in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Lišak most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lišak is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 9.7 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Lišak?
In Poland, the national register counted 1,177 people named Lišak in 2026, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
How common is Lišak compared with other names?
In Ukraine, Lišak is the 404th most common surname of 1,177,784 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Lišak” — the 404th most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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