Kaduk
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Polish: escheat
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kədək/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kaduk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 46Kas Кадук(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 532Kas Кадук
- PLPoland1 in 96K
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 Kaduk 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 81 (measured from records)
- 1 in 96K (inferred from the name graph)
≈950 named Кадук, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Кадук in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan.
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)
decayed
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Kaduk is read(measured from records)
Kaduk is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English35%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Kaduk in English.
- Ukrainian32%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Kaduk in Ukrainian.
- Polish26%
escheat
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German11%
decayed
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish6.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Kaduk in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kaduk 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Кадук | 28 |
| PL Poland | 397 | 1 in 96K | 215 | Kaduk | 12 |
| RU Russia | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 532K | — | Кадук | 81 |
| US United States | 109 | 1 in 3.1M | 142 | Kaduk | 5 |
| SK Slovakia | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 147K | — | Kaduk | 11 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 532K | — | Кадук | 16 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Kaduk is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Basque, Caduco. Ura element kaduk eta desegiten den bat izanagatik . Lç Ins G, 7v.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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(measured from records)
- Oswald Kadukb. 1906PLSS officer (1906–1997)
- František Kadukb. 1937Czechoslovak member of Czechoslovak parliament and Slovak nation politician
- Jörg KadukGBresearcher, ORCID id # 0000-0003-4051-3081
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 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 215 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 215 | #15,344 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 182 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 182 | #17,672 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 142 | #114,166 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 109 | #150,452 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 106 | #152,339 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Kaduk come from?
- decayed Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kaduk?
- A machine transcription gives /kədək/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Kaduk mean?
- In Polish, escheat
- In which country does Kaduk have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 947 people named Кадук in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kaduk most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kaduk is densest in Poland — about 1 in 96 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kaduk?
- In Poland, the national register counted 397 people named Kaduk in 2026, about 1 in 96 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kaduk?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kadukThe 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, “Kaduk”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.