Kazak
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Turkish: pullover, sweater
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kazak/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kazak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 134Kas Кончак(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 62K
- SESweden1 in 392K
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 Kazak 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 67 (measured from records)
- 1 in 62K (inferred from the name graph)
617 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Кончак in RU Russia.
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)
pullover, sweater
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
How Kazak is read(measured from records)
Kazak is one spelling over 3 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.
- Turkish68%
pullover, sweater
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
1. Göçebe, akıncı. 2. Rusya'da yaşayan bir Türk kavmi. 3. Genç, taze. 4. İnatçı.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- English11%
lang., people, Kazakhstan, China
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Mongolian PR, Afghanistan
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Official term for the local Kazakh nationality in the People’s Republic of China.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Ukrainian8.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Kazak in Ukrainian.
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)
Kazak 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 617 | 1 in 62K | 356 | Kazak | 32 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 134K | — | Kazak | 22 |
| US United States | 278 | 1 in 1.2M | 328 | Kazak | 21 |
| RU Russia | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | — | Кончак | 67 |
| ES Spain | 52 | 1 in 962K | 52 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 26 | 1 in 392K | 26 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 15 | 1 in 560K | 15 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | 8 | 1 in 734K | 8 | — | — |
617 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Kazak 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 Russian, "cossack."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)
- Irchi Kazakb. 1830RUKumyk poet
- Mary Eristoff-Kazakb. 1857RURussian painter and draftswoman
- Eddie Kazakb. 1920USAmerican baseball player (1920-1999)
- Nicholas Stanislavovich Kazakb. 1945BYSoviet physicist
- Ali Kazakb. 1947PSPalestinian diplomat
- Ivan Vladimirovich Kazakb. 1959BYSoviet and Belarusian sculptor
- Maksim Kazakb. 1961RURussian rector
- Levent Kazakb. 1967TRTurkish actor and screenwriter (born 1967)
- Tchetin Kazakb. 1972BGBulgarian politician
- Volkan Kazakb. 1978TRTurkish association football player (born 1978)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 356 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 356 | #9,138 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 328 | #65,358 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 278 | #70,403 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 261 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 261 | #12,754 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 226 | #78,549 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 52 | #43,722 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 52 | #43,157 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 26 | #20,995 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 15 | #45,119 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 8 | #45,322 |
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
- What are other forms of the name Kazak?
- In the etymology graph, Kazach is a form of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Kazak mean, and where does it come from?
- pullover, sweater Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kazak?
- A machine transcription gives /kazak/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Kazak have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 617 people named Kazak, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kazak.
- Where is Kazak most common?
- Kazak is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 62 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kazak?
- In Poland, the national register counted 617 people named Kazak in 2026, about 1 in 62 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kazakThe 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, “Kazak”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.