Zapalac
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/zəˈpɑɫək/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zapalac is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mali than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Czech Zapalač.
- USUnited States1 in 599K(measured from records)
- MLMali≈1 in 18K
- BJBenin≈1 in 50K
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.
- Mali (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 156 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Mali, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Czech Zapalač.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zapalac 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.
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; MVČR — living population register 2017; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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)- Bill Zapalacb. 1948USAmerican football player (born 1948)
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 555 | #39,607 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 551 | #42,381 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 508 | #40,552 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #278,519 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (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
- What does the name Zapalac mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Czech Zapalač. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Zapalac?
- A machine transcription gives /zəˈpɑɫək/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Zapalac have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Zapalac in Mali, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zapalac.
- How common is the name Zapalac?
- In the United States, the national register counted 555 people named Zapalac in 2010, about 1 in 599 thousand residents.
- How common is Zapalac compared with other names?
- In Mali, Zapalac is the 422nd most common surname of 7,873 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zapalacThe 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, “Zapalac” — the 422nd most common surname in Mali. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.