Cuk
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kək/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cuk 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 Cuk 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 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cuk 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)
Cuk is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Khmer, thickly; densely; p. thick; dense. Ex .: tfiflastin The grass grows thickly, It is very dusty! 2. n
as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume I (ក-ភ)
In sit-pro, stick into, plant
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Albanian, to pierce (with a sharp, thin object, needle, thorn, stinger, prickle etc)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In esu, Nunivak Island and Chevak form of yuk
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-3 language code for Kuna.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vo, donkey, ass (equid)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Štefan Cukb. 1962SISlovene judoka (1962-)
- Vladimir Cukb. 1975RSSerbian actor
- Mateo Cukb. 1990HRCroatian water polo player
- Alessandro CukITItalian film critic
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 14 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 104 | #10,728 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 38 | #9,204 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Cuk?
- A machine transcription gives /kək/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Cuk have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Cuk, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ćuk.
- Where is Cuk most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cuk 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 Cuk?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 1,191 people named Cuk in 2021, about 1 in 3.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Cuk compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Cuk is the 324th most common surname of 72,581 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Cuk?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cukThe 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, “Cuk” — the 324th most common surname in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.