Zakova
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/zakova/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zakova is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 2.2K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 4K
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 82K
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.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 49 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
4,946 people
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 Žáková 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zakova 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | #269 | 4,946 | 1 in 2.2K | 4.9K | Žáková | 49 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 1,353 | 1 in 4K | 1.4K | Žáková | 19 |
| BG Bulgaria | — | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Zakova | 16 |
| ES Spain | — | 10 | 1 in 5M | 10 | — | 3 |
| US United States | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 37M | listed | Zakova | 18 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 3 | 1 in 3.9M | 3 | — | 1 |
4,946 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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 6 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 10 | #120,154 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #127,583 |
| 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 Zakova?
- A machine transcription gives /zakova/ (IPA) for Czech.
- In which country does Zakova have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 4.9 thousand people named Zakova, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled žáková.
- Where is Zakova most common?
- Zakova is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Zakova?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 4,946 people named Zakova, about 1 in 2.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Zakova compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Zakova is the 269th most common surname of 114,573 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Zakova?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zakovaThe 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, “Zakova” — the 269th most common surname in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.