Spak
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Spak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of Shpak.
- USUnited States1 in 514K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 86K
- IEIreland≈1 in 171K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 174 (measured from records)
- 1 in 86K (inferred from the name graph)
647 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variant of Shpak.
Sources 2
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Spak 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 647 | 1 in 514K | 665 | Spak | 174 |
| BR Brazil | 412 | 1 in 514K | 412 | — | 1 |
| KE Kenya | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 275K | — | Spak | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 324K | — | Spak | 34 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 584K | — | Spak | 13 |
| FI Finland | 65 | 1 in 86K | 65 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 51 | 1 in 200K | 51 | — | 8 |
| AT Austria | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 219K | — | Spak | 17 |
| IE Ireland | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 171K | — | Spak | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 200K | — | Spak | 1 |
647 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Spak is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, powerless, tired, obedient, tame, calm, easy, reasonable; of a person or animal that used to resist, but has given up the fight; of calm water
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, first/third-person singular past indicative of speken
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sco, simple past tense of speak
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, a lever
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)
- Fredrik Adolf Spakb. 1846SESwedish military personnel (1846-1915)
- Fredrik Spakb. 1876SESwedish writer and priest (1876-1926)
- Franz Heinrich Spakb. 1900ATAustrian civil servant, writer and journalist
- Josef Špakb. 1929CZCzechoslovak Czechoslovak hussites bishop, priest of Czechoslovak hussites, Czechoslovak hussites patriarch and priest (1929–2016)
- Miroslav Špakb. 1934CZCzech motorcycle racer
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 21 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 665 | #32,567 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 647 | #34,878 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 628 | #38,010 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 412 | #20,247 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 65 | #18,192 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 51 | #12,358 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 24 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
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 Spak mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Shpak. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- In which country does Spak have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 647 people named Spak, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled spak.
- Where is Spak most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Spak is densest in Finland — about 1 in 86 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Spak?
- In the United States, the national register counted 647 people named Spak in 2010, about 1 in 514 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Spak?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/spakThe 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, “Spak”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.