Wowk
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/waʊk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wowk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country, where it is the 75th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Ukrainian вовк (vovk, “wolf”).
- UAUkraine≈1 in 1.5Kas Вовк(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 16Kas Вовк
- CACanada≈1 in 139K
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 Wowk 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.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 141 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 139K (inferred from the name graph)
≈29,000 named Вовк, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Вовк in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, Vovk in SI Slovenia, AR Argentina and Волк in BY Belarus.
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)
Borrowed from Ukrainian вовк (vovk, “wolf”).
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wowk 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | #75 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Вовк | 68 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Вовк | 141 |
| PL Poland | — | 2,537as Vovk | 1 in 15K | 1.4K | — | 2 |
| SI Slovenia | #153 | 1,168as Vovk | 1 in 1.8K | 1.2K | Vovk | 25 |
| BY Belarus | #570 | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Волк | 20 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 139K | — | Wowk | 73 |
| AR Argentina | — | 44 | 1 in 1M | 44 | Vovk | 20 |
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); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Anton Vovkb. 1900SICatholic archbishop (1900–1963)
- Vira Vovkb. 1926BRUkrainian writer, critic, and translator (1926–2022)
- Melita Vovkb. 1928SIIllustrator and painter (1928-2020)
- Angelina Vovkb. 1942RUSoviet actress
- Vladimir Vovkb. 1960GBBritish computer scientist
- Raayb. 1984SInot in their usual nameSlovenian musician
- Marjetka Vovkb. 1984SISlovenian musician
- Yuri Vovkb. 1988UAUkrainian chess player
- Andrey Vovkb. 1991UAUkrainian chess player
- Valeriia Vovkmusician
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 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 179 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 179 | #17,981 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 166 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 166 | #19,557 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 44 | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Wowk mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Ukrainian вовк (vovk, “wolf”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Wowk?
- A machine transcription gives /waʊk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Wowk have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named Вовк in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Wowk?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 44 people named Wowk, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
- How common is Wowk compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Wowk is the 75th most common surname of 1,177,784 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Wowk?
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/wowkThe 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, “Wowk” — the 75th most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.