Zimak

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Zimak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 62K(measured from records)
  • HRCroatia1 in 80K
  • PLPoland1 in 173K

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.

Poland (measured from records)

221 people, 2026

Sources
17 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 62K (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Zimák in CZ Czechia.

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.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Zimak 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 Zimak is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland2211 in 173K112Zimak17
CZ Czechia1731 in 62K173Zimák14
US United States≈78 est.≈1 in 4.3MlistedZimak4
HR Croatia531 in 80K53——
SK Slovakia51 in 1.1M5—1
CH Switzerland41 in 2.1M4—1

221 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); 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)

Zimak is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Canada, Australia

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Zimák

  • Ukrainian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

    Also written Зимак, Зімак

  • Portuguese surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Zimák

  • Hebrew surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written זימאק

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Zimák

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Zimák

18 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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 10 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Zimak
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026112—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—112#27,436
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026109—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—109#27,690
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202153#12,718
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202145—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20244#118,617
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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

In which country does Zimak have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 221 people named Zimak, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zimak.
Where is Zimak most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zimak is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 62 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Zimak?
In Poland, the national register counted 221 people named Zimak in 2026, about 1 in 173 thousand residents.

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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, “Zimak”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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