Liivak
surname · Latin script
Liivak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Estonia than in any other country.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 5.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 55K
- SESweden1 in 2M
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.
- Estonia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈220 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Liivak 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | #230 | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | 243 | Liivak | 38 |
| FI Finland | — | 101 | 1 in 55K | 101 | Liivak | 2 |
| US United States | — | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 17M | listed | Liivak | 18 |
| ES Spain | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 7.5M | — | Liivak | 7 |
| SE Sweden | — | 5 | 1 in 2M | 5 | — | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 15M | — | Liivak | 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: the ee-stat-nimed register; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
- Paul Liivakb. 1900EEEstonian printmaker (1900–1942)
- Nette Liivakb. 1916EEEstonian textile artist (1916-1993)
- Evi Liivakb. 1924EEEstonian-American classical violinist (1924-1996)
- Anu Liivakb. 1953EEEstonian art historian and critic (1953-2016)
- Toomas Liivakb. 1970EEEstonian basketball player (born 1970)
- Sander Liivakb. 1972EEEstonian translator (born 1972)
- Merle Liivakb. 1978EEEstonian journalist (born 1978)
- Eva Liivakb. 1980EEEstonian mountaineer (1980-2008)
- Maria Lee Liivakb. 1984EEEstonian poet, actress and dramaturge (born 1984)
- Frank Liivakb. 1996EEEstonian association football player (born 1996)
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 7 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 243 | #186 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 210 | #263 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 101 | #12,671 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 5 | #56,531 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- In which country does Liivak have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 219 people named Liivak in Estonia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled liivak.
- How common is the name Liivak?
- In Finland, the national register counted 101 people named Liivak, about 1 in 55 thousand residents.
- How common is Liivak compared with other names?
- In Estonia, Liivak is the 230th most common surname of 37,297 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Liivak?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/liivakThe 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, “Liivak” — the 230th most common surname in Estonia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.