Filak

Name: Filak: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
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Published: 2026-10-13
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surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026

/fʲilak/(machine-generated) Polish · model-generated

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Filak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country: 755 people, counted by dane.gov.pl in 2026. Filak is also written Філак in Cyrillic.

CZCzechia1 in 35K(measured from records)
SISlovenia1 in 40K
PLPoland1 in 51K

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 Filak itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: Poland (measured from records)
: 2 (measured from records)
Record sources: 40 (measured from records)
: 1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Filak in other scripts: Cyrillic

FilakLatin

ФілакFilak in Cyrillic

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Филак

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.

How to pronounce Filak

Polish:/fʲilak/(machine-generated) model-generated
Spanish:/filak/(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Meaning & origin

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

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Filak is found

Filak 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 Filak is recorded, by country
Country				Most common spelling	Sources
PL Poland	755	1 in 51K	378	Filak	40
US United States	331	1 in 1M	331	Filak	28
CZ Czechia	302	1 in 35K	303	Filak	21
SI Slovenia	53	1 in 40K	53	—	1
GB United Kingdom	≈49 est.	≈1 in 1.4M	—	Filak	9
HR Croatia	19	1 in 223K	19	—	—
SK Slovakia	8	1 in 680K	8	—	—

755 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; MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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

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

English surname10 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Hungary, Canada
Languages: English, German, Hungarian
Also written Filák, Filàk
Croatian surname4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Croatia, United States
Also written Филак
a separate name2 spellings in the group
Also written Filák

25 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

Filak 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 tiy, silver (the metal); money, a peso
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In tbk, money; silver; tin; coins
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In mhs, flash, as lightning
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

John Filakb. 1903USAmerican football player
Taras Filiakb. 2002UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian sportsperson
Manca FilakSIresearcher

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

FormalDear Filak,

InformalHello,

Evidence

16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Filak?: It depends on the language: in Polish /fʲilak/; in Spanish /filak/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Filak?: In Poland, the national register counted about 755 people named Filak, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled filak. After it come United States, Czechia, Slovenia and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Filak most common?: Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Filak is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 35 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Filak?: In Poland, the national register counted 755 people named Filak in 2026, about 1 in 51 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/filak

The 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 2026-10-13 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, “Filak” — ranked 8628th in Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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