Čuk
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʂuk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Čuk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.
- 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 Čuk 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 74 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
1,191 people, 2021
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ćuk in HR Croatia, RS Serbia, BA Bosnia & Herzegovina and Cuk in US United States, CH Switzerland.
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 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Čuk 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | #324 | 1,191 | 1 in 3.5K | 1.2K | Ćuk | 32 |
| SI Slovenia | #224 | 997 | 1 in 2.1K | 997 | Čuk | 19 |
| RS Serbia | #550 | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Ćuk | 24 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #617 | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Ćuk | 8 |
| US United States | — | 219as Chuk | 1 in 1.5M | 233 | Cuk | 74 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 104 | 1 in 81K | 104 | Cuk | 4 |
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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Čuk is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Uzsauciens, bieži atkārtojumā, ko lieto saucot cūkas, piemēram, barošanas reizēs
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Milka Čukb. 1930SIresearcher
- Janez Čukb. 1933SIslovene actor
- Jožko Čukb. 1952SISlovene engineer and politician
- Marij Čukb. 1952ITSlovenian poet
- Vesna Čukb. 1957SIresearcher
- Ivan Čukb. 1961SISlovenian university teacher
- Angela Čukb. 1961SISlovenian researcher
- David ČukSIresearcher
- Francka ČukSIresearcher
- Jasna ČukSIresearcher
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 997 | #164 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 178 | #4,668 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 162 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Čuk?
- A machine transcription gives /ʂuk/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- In which country does Čuk have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Čuk, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ćuk.
- Where is Čuk most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Čuk 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 Čuk?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 1,191 people named Čuk in 2021, about 1 in 3.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Čuk compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Čuk is the 324th most common surname of 72,581 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Čuk?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C4%8DukThe 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, “Čuk” — the 324th most common surname in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.