Ružak

surname · Latin script

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

  • ARArgentina1 in 583K(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 2.9M
  • HRCroatia1 in 24K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Croatia (measured from records)

178 people, 2021

Record sources
16 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ruzak in US United States.

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.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Ružak 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 Ružak is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia1781 in 24K178Ružak16
AR Argentina781 in 583K78——
PL Poland131 in 2.9M8——
US United States——listedRuzak9
EE Estonia——listed——

178 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Ruzak

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Ruzak, Růžák, Ružák

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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Ružak
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021178#4,685
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)2021145—

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Ružak have the most bearers?
In Croatia, the national register counted about 178 people named Ružak, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ružak.
Where is Ružak most common?
Ružak is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 24 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Ružak?
In Croatia, the national register counted 178 people named Ružak in 2021, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.

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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, “Ružak”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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