Zák
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Zák is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Afrikaans sak (“bag”). Doublet of sac and sack.
- PLPoland1 in 1.8K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 2.3K
- SKSlovakia1 in 3.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 132 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
21,757 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Żak in PL Poland, US United States and Žák in CZ Czechia, SK Slovakia.
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)- Afrikaanssak“bag”(measured from records)
- Frenchsac(inferred from the name graph)via sak
- Latinsaccus(inferred from the name graph)via sak
- Ancient Greekσάκκοςsákkos(inferred from the name graph)via sak
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
From Afrikaans sak (“bag”). Doublet of sac and sack.
Cited for this meaning 2
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zák 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #313 | 21,757 | 1 in 1.8K | 11K | Żak | 109 |
| US United States | — | 5,177 | 1 in 64K | 5.2K | Żak | 132 |
| CZ Czechia | #487 | 4,728 | 1 in 2.3K | 4.7K | Žák | 73 |
| SK Slovakia | #598 | 1,424 | 1 in 3.8K | 1.4K | Žák | 41 |
| NO Norway | — | 190 | 1 in 29K | 190 | — | 7 |
21,757 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; MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Reference works 1
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
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 Zák mean, and where does it come from?
- From Afrikaans sak (“bag”). Doublet of sac and sack. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and Wiktionary.
- Is Zák a male or female name?
- Zák is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Zák have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Zák, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled żak.
- Where is Zák most common?
- Zák is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.8 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Zák?
- In Poland, the national register counted 21,757 people named Zák in 2026, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Zák compared with other names?
- In Poland, Zák is the 313th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/z%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, “Zák” — the 313th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.