Piljak
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/piʎak/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Piljak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Serbia than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 35K(measured from records)
- RSSerbia≈1 in 54K
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 86K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Serbia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- 1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
≈130 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Piljak 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RS Serbia | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Piljak | 17 |
| HR Croatia | 121 | 1 in 35K | 121 | Piljak | 14 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 86K | — | Piljak | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | 9 | 1 in 934K | 9 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 55M | listed | Piljak | 11 |
| FI Finland | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 925K | — | Piljak | 5 |
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); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 121 | #6,721 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 119 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 9 | #65,843 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Piljak?
- A machine transcription gives /piʎak/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- In which country does Piljak have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 130 people named Piljak in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled piljak.
- Where is Piljak most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Piljak is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 35 thousand people — even though Serbia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Piljak?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 121 people named Piljak in 2021, about 1 in 35 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Piljak?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/piljakThe 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, “Piljak”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.