Ćuk

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ćuk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: scops owl (Otus scops).

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 3.5K(measured from records)
  • SISlovenia1 in 2.1K
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 11K

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 Ćuk 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.

Croatia (measured from records)

1,191 people, 2021

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
74 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ĆukLatin(measured from records)
ЋукCyrillic(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Cuk in US United States, CH Switzerland and Čuk in SI Slovenia.

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)

scops owl (Otus scops)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ćuk 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 Ćuk is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia#3241,1911 in 3.5K1.2KĆuk32
SI Slovenia#2249971 in 2.1K997Čuk19
RS Serbia#550≈620 est.≈1 in 11K—Ćuk24
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#617≈310 est.≈1 in 12K—Ćuk8
US United States—219as Chuk1 in 1.5M233Cuk74
CH Switzerland—1041 in 81K104Cuk4

1,191 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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)

Ćuk is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Čuk, Cuk, Çük, Çuk, Cûk

  • English surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, Dutch

    Also written Cuk, Čuk, Çuk, Çük

  • Polish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland

    Also written Cuk, Čuk

  • Spanish surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Mexico, United States, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Cuk, C'Uk, Čuk, Çuk

  • Italian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy

    Also written Cuk, Čuk

  • Russian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kyrgyzstan, Türkiye

    Also written Cuk, Çuk, Čuk, Cük

  • Hindi surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Türkiye

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Cuk, Čuk, Çuk

  • Czech surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia

    Also written Cuk, Čuk

9 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ćuk is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Serbo-Croatian, onomatopejski uzvik kojim se pozivaju kokoši

    as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

  • In Serbo-Croatian, sinonim: sova

    as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

  • In sit-pro, enter, dive

    as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Ćuk
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)20211.2K#422
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)20211.1K—

Reference works 1

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

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 Ćuk mean, and where does it come from?
scops owl (Otus scops) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Ćuk have the most bearers?
In Croatia, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Ćuk, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ćuk.
Where is Ćuk most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ćuk is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 2.1 thousand people — even though Croatia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Ćuk?
In Croatia, the national register counted 1,191 people named Ćuk in 2021, about 1 in 3.5 thousand residents.
How common is Ćuk compared with other names?
In Croatia, Ćuk is the 324th most common surname of 72,581 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Ćuk” — the 324th most common surname in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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