Bujak
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈbu.jak/(recorded in a dictionary) Polish · from Wiktionary
Bujak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Polish Bujak.
- PLPoland1 in 4.1K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 47K
- NONorway1 in 74K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 95 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.1K (inferred from the name graph)
9,262 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Polish Bujak.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bujak 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #272 | 9,262 | 1 in 4.1K | 4.6K | Bujak | 95 |
| US United States | — | 619 | 1 in 537K | 640 | Bujak | 77 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 111K | — | Bujak | 1 |
| RS Serbia | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Bujak | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 502K | — | Bujak | 35 |
| HR Croatia | — | 90 | 1 in 47K | 90 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 74 | 1 in 74K | 74 | — | 2 |
9,262 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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 2020; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Bujak is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In poz-wmp-pro, flower
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)- Franciszek Bujakb. 1875PLPolish historian (1875-1953)
- Franciszek Bujakb. 1896PLPolish cross-country skier
- Józef Bujakb. 1898PLPolish cross-country skier
- Adam Bujakb. 1942PLPolish photographer (born 1942)
- Jacek Bujakb. 1945PLPolish politician and deputy
- Zbigniew Bujakb. 1954PLPolish politician
- Bogdan Bujakb. 1954PLPolish politician and deputy
- Bolesław Bujakb. 1957PLPolish politician and deputy
- Philip Bujakb. 1960GBBritish educationist
- Eugenia Bujakb. 1989PLPolish-Slovenian cyclist
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)29 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4.6K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4.6K | #419 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4.6K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4.6K | #435 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 640 | #37,403 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 619 | #36,204 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 612 | #34,904 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 90 | #8,628 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 75 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 74 | #19,879 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Bujak mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Polish Bujak. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Bujak?
- In Polish /ˈbu.jak/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Bujak have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 9.3 thousand people named Bujak, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bujak.
- Where is Bujak most common?
- Bujak is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bujak?
- In Poland, the national register counted 9,262 people named Bujak in 2026, about 1 in 4.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Bujak compared with other names?
- In Poland, Bujak is the 272nd most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bujakThe 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, “Bujak” — the 272nd most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.