Babiak
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈbɑbiæk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Babiak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Polish Babiak.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 24Kas Баб’як(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 299Kas Бабяк
- PLPoland1 in 23K
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 Babiak 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)
- Record sources
- 101 (measured from records)
- 1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 named Баб’як, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Бабяк in RU Russia, BY Belarus and Баб’як in UA Ukraine.
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 Polish Babiak.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Babiak 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 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Баб’як | 36 |
| PL Poland | 1,692 | 1 in 23K | 866 | Babiak | 52 |
| US United States | 740as Babyak | 1 in 450K | 752 | Babiak | 66 |
| RU Russia | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 299K | — | Бабяк | 101 |
| CA Canada | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 154K | — | Babiak | 12 |
| SK Slovakia | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Babiak | 29 |
| BY Belarus | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 213K | — | Бабяк | 8 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000. 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)- Miron Babiakb. 1932PLPolish sailor (1932–2013)
- Walter Babiakb. 1933CACanadian composer, conductor
- Jerzy Babiakb. 1943PLPolish economist
- Zygmunt Babiakb. 1958PLPolish actor
- Augustyn Babiakb. 1959UApriest (1959-)
- Todd Babiakb. 1972CACanadian writer
- Igor BabiakPLresearcher
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)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 866 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 866 | #3,557 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 826 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 826 | #3,849 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 593 | #35,797 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 572 | #38,640 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 563 | #41,648 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Babiak mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Polish Babiak. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Babiak?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɑbiæk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Babiak have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Баб’як in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Babiak most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Babiak is densest in Poland — about 1 in 23 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Babiak?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,692 people named Babiak in 2026, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Babiak?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/babiakThe 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, “Babiak”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.