Závada
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Závada is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: defect (fault or malfunction).
- UAUkraine≈1 in 18Kas Завада(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 153Kas Завада
- CZCzechia1 in 52K
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 Závada 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 111 (measured from records)
- 1 in 52K (inferred from the name graph)
13,062 named Zawada, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Завада in UA Ukraine, RU Russia and Zavada 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)
defect (fault or malfunction)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Závada 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 | 13,062as Zawada | 1 in 2.9K | 6.5K | — | 3 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Завада | 32 |
| RU Russia | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 153K | — | Завада | 111 |
| US United States | 774as Zawada | 1 in 430K | 774 | Zavada | 28 |
| CZ Czechia | 206 | 1 in 52K | 206 | Závada | 17 |
| SK Slovakia | 80 | 1 in 68K | 80 | Závada | 8 |
| HR Croatia | 67 | 1 in 63K | 67 | — | — |
13,062 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; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Vilém Závadab. 1905CZCzech poet, writer and translator
- Vladimír Závadab. 1987SKbadminton player
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)
Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 Závada mean, and where does it come from?
- defect (fault or malfunction) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Závada?
- In the etymology graph, Zawada is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Závada have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Zawada, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Závada most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Závada is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 52 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Závada?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 206 people named Závada, about 1 in 52 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Závada?
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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%A1vadaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Závada”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.