Berak

surname · Latin script

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

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

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 36K(measured from records)
  • SISlovenia1 in 124K
  • PLPoland1 in 348K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Croatia (measured from records)

119 people, 2021

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
18 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 36K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BerakLatin(measured from records)
БеракCyrillic(measured from records)

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)

recorded in Croatian

»1° gaj, lug, 2° bara, lokva, blato, 3° obala«

Sources 1

  • Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Berak 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 Berak is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia1191 in 36K119Berak18
PL Poland1101 in 348K55——
SI Slovenia171 in 124K17—1
CH Switzerland171 in 494K17—1
NL Netherlands81 in 2.2M8—1

119 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); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)

Berak is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Syria, Morocco, Egypt, Türkiye

    Also written Bēraḵ

  • Czech surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Berák, Bérák

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Guatemala

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Berák

34 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)

Berak is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Basque, absolutive plural of bera (“the same”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Hungarian, to put in (to place inside)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Malay, poop; feces; shit.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

194019601980Jadwiga Berak, b. 1945Jelka Glavnik - Berak, b. 1965Đorđe Berak, b. 1976

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Berak
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021119#6,834
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202199—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202655—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202655—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—55#46,840
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—55#46,327
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202417#41,155
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—17#14,830
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)20078#68,051

Reference works 4

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

In which country does Berak have the most bearers?
In Croatia, the national register counted about 119 people named Berak, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled berak.
Where is Berak most common?
Berak is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 36 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Berak?
In Croatia, the national register counted 119 people named Berak in 2021, about 1 in 36 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, “Berak”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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