Vakh

surname · Latin script

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

/vək/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 6.4Kas Wach(measured from records)
  • FRFrance≈1 in 82Kas Wach
  • NONorway1 in 119Kas Wach

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 Vakh 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.

Poland (measured from records)

5,939 named Wach, 2026

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
82 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 6.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland, as Wach

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

WachLatin(measured from records)
ВакхCyrillic(measured from records)

Locally spelled Wach in PL Poland, US United States, FR France and 2 more.

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 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Vakh 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 Vakh is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland#9525,939as Wach1 in 6.4K3KWach82
US United States—830as Wach1 in 401K830Wach40
FR France—≈830 est.≈1 in 82K105Wach1
GB United Kingdom—≈150 est.≈1 in 446K23Wach25
CA Canada—≈130 est.≈1 in 294K1—2
NO Norway—46as Wach1 in 119K46—2
CH Switzerland—34as Wach1 in 247K34—1
IE Ireland—≈22 est.≈1 in 231K—Wach2

5,939 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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)

Vakh is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Austria, Spain

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Wach, Vach, Waech, Wäch, Vãch

  • Czech surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Vach, Vãch, Vạch

14 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)

Vakh 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 Russian, "wide."

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

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)

175018001850190019502000Karl Wilhelm Wach, b. 1787Adolf Wach, b. 1843Hugo Wach, b. 1872Karl Wach, b. 1878Aloys Wach, b. 1892Joachim Wach, b. 1898Curt Wach, b. 1906Petra Boesler, b. 1955Mariusz Wach, b. 1979Krzysztof Wach, b. 1986

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)

Formalआदरणीय Vakh जी,Respected Vakh ji, (English)
Informalआदरणीय Vakh जी,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Vakh
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202628—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—28#73,684
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202624—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—24#81,524
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • Wikipedia surname tokens

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 Vakh?
A machine transcription gives /vək/ (IPA) for Hindi.
In which country does Vakh have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 5.9 thousand people named Wach, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Vakh most common?
No national register we hold counts the spelling Vakh itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Poland's: the national register counts about 1 in 6.4 thousand people named Wach.
How common is the name Vakh?
In Poland, the national register counted 5,939 people named Wach in 2026, about 1 in 6.4 thousand residents.
How common is Vakh compared with other names?
In Poland, Vakh is the 952nd most common surname of 240,840 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, “Vakh” — the 952nd most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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