Burlak
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Formerly in Russia, a man employed in dragging barges or ships upstream
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɝɫək/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Burlak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 21Kas Бурлак(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 54Kas Бурлак
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 150Kas Бурлак
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 Burlak 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 123 (measured from records)
- 1 in 175K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,600 named Бурлак, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Бурлак in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 2 more.
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)
Formerly in Russia, a man employed in dragging barges or ships upstream.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Burlak 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Бурлак | 123 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Бурлак | 35 |
| CN China | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 5.8M | — | Бурлак | 1 |
| PL Poland | 160 | 1 in 239K | 82 | Burlak | 12 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 150K | 77 | Бурлак | 25 |
| BY Belarus | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 213K | — | Бурлак | 8 |
| SI Slovenia | 12 | 1 in 175K | 12 | — | 1 |
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: 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Russians, by region of residence; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
- Anne Burlakb. 1911USlabor activist
- Michael John Nicholasb. 1924USnot in their usual namescreenwriter
- Svetlana Burlakb. 1969RURussian linguist
- Vera Burlakb. 1977BYBelarusian translator
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)
Attested in 14 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 82 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 82 | #34,960 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 78 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 78 | #35,818 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 12 | #17,855 |
Reference works 3
- 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
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 Burlak mean, and where does it come from?
- Formerly in Russia, a man employed in dragging barges or ships upstream. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Burlak?
- A machine transcription gives /bɝɫək/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- In which country does Burlak have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.6 thousand people named Бурлак in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Burlak most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Burlak is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 175 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Burlak?
- In Poland, the national register counted 160 people named Burlak in 2026, about 1 in 239 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/burlakThe 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, “Burlak”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.