Hudak
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Germanized or Americanized form of Czech and Slovak Chudak, a descriptive nickname from chudak ‘poor man’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈhudək/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hudak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 59K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 1.3K
- CZCzechia1 in 22K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 324 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈36,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Slovakia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Germanized or Americanized form of Czech and Slovak Chudak, a descriptive nickname from chudak ‘poor man’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hudak 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Hudak | 2 |
| US United States | — | 5,593 | 1 in 59K | 5.6K | Hudak | 324 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 4,218 | 1 in 1.3K | 4.2K | — | 2 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Hudak | 2 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 146K | — | Hudak | 2 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 496 | 1 in 22K | 498 | — | 2 |
| HR Croatia | — | 168 | 1 in 25K | 168 | — | — |
| PS Palestine | #668 | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Hudak | 2 |
| GY Guyana | #640 | — | — | — | Hudak | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)
- Adalbert Hudakb. 1911DEGerman politician (1911-1986)
- Günther Hudakb. 1939DEGerman politician (1939-1992)
- Evie Hudakb. 1951USAmerican politician
- Paul Hudakb. 1952USAmerican computer scientist (1952-2015)
- Mike Hudakb. 1952USAmerican activist
- Harald Hudakb. 1957DEGerman middle distance runner
- Petro Hudakb. 1961UAUkrainian violinist
- Tim Hudakb. 1967CACanadian politician
- Brittany Hudakb. 1993CACanadian female biathlete and cross-country skier
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 22 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.6K | #5,667 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.6K | #6,124 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.2K | #6,297 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 168 | #4,963 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 151 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 5 | #122,200 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 5 | #20,612 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Hudak mean, and where does it come from?
- Germanized or Americanized form of Czech and Slovak Chudak, a descriptive nickname from chudak ‘poor man’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hudak?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhudək/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hudak have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 36 thousand people named Hudak in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hudak.
- Where is Hudak most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hudak is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 1.3 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hudak?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,593 people named Hudak in 2010, about 1 in 59 thousand residents.
- How common is Hudak compared with other names?
- In Guyana, Hudak is the 640th most common surname of 15,834 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hudakThe 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, “Hudak” — the 640th most common surname in Guyana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.