Gulak

surname · Latin script

Meaning: baby turkey (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026

/ɡulɐk/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated

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Gulak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country: 268 people, counted by dane.gov.pl in 2026.

  • EEEstonia≈1 in 100K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PLPoland1 in 143K
  • CACanada≈1 in 800Kfew records

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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)

268 people, 2026

Record sources
84 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 100K (inferred from the name graph)

Estonia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

How to pronounce Gulak

  • Portuguese:/ɡulɐk/(machine-generated) model-generated
  • Polish:/ˈɡu.lak/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

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

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

baby turkey

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Gulak is found

(measured from records)

Gulak 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 Gulak is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland2681 in 143K135—1
NG Nigeria≈250 est.≈1 in 924KlistedGulak10
US United States≈120 est.≈1 in 2.9MlistedGulak84
BR Brazil1101 in 1.9M110——
CA Canada≈52 est.≈1 in 796K—Gulak33
EE Estonia≈14 est.≈1 in 100Klisted—1
JM Jamaica≈12 est.≈1 in 246K—Gulak1

268 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)

Gulak is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Nigeria, India, Russia

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Gülak

  • Russian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Гулак, Gulâk

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gulâk

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Gülak

  • Croatian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Гулак, Gülak

  • Czech surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Gulák, Guľák, Guľak

30 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.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
1850190019502000Asher Gulak, b. 1881Patrycja Gulak, b. 1982Drew Gulak, b. 1987

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)
FormalDear Mr Gulak,
InformalHi Gulak,

Evidence

(measured from records)

12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Gulak mean, and where does it come from?
baby turkey Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Gulak?
It depends on the language: in Portuguese /ɡulɐk/; in Polish /ˈɡu.lak/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Gulak?
In Poland, the national register counted about 268 people named Gulak, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Nigeria, United States, Brazil and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Gulak?
In Poland, the national register counted 268 people named Gulak in 2026, about 1 in 143 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, “Gulak” — ranked 23251st in Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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