Chelak

surname · Latin script

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

/ʃɫək/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 49Kas Челак(inferred from the name graph)
  • RURussia≈1 in 173Kas Челак
  • PLPoland1 in 416K

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 Chelak 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)

≈890 named Челак, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
106 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 416K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ChelakLatin(measured from records)
ЧелакCyrillic(measured from records)

Locally spelled Челак in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Chelak 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 Chelak is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
UA Ukraine≈890 est.≈1 in 49K—Челак28
RU Russia≈820 est.≈1 in 173K—Челак106
US United States1291 in 2.6M138Chelak13
PL Poland921 in 416K47—1
KZ Kazakhstan≈27 est.≈1 in 714K—Челак19
BY Belarus≈27 est.≈1 in 355K—Челак7
EE Estonia≈2 est.≈1 in 701KlistedЧелак2

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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)

Chelak is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Croatian surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Croatia, Russia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Macedonian

    Also written Čelak, Celak, Челак, Ćelak

27 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)

Chelak 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 Russian, "black."

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

  • In Uzbek, bucket, pail

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

  • In iba, printing

    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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

Formalआदरणीय Chelak जी,Respected Chelak ji, (English)
Informalआदरणीय Chelak जी,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Chelak
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020138#129,045
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010129#131,379
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000113#136,783
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202647—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—47#52,164
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202645—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—45#53,195
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

How do you pronounce Chelak?
A machine transcription gives /ʃɫək/ (IPA) for Hindi.
In which country does Chelak have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 893 people named Челак in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Chelak most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chelak is densest in Poland — about 1 in 416 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Chelak?
In the United States, the national register counted 129 people named Chelak in 2010, about 1 in 2.6 million 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, “Chelak”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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