Mazak
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Turkish: dwarf, short
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/bozɑk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mazak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 23K
- CZCzechia1 in 46K
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 124 (measured from records)
- 1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovakia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A form of Zamak alloy using a different kind of zinc.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Mazak is read
(measured from records)Mazak is one spelling over 2 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.
- Turkish44%
dwarf, short
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English41%
A form of Zamak alloy using a different kind of zinc.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Mazak 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Mazak | 5 |
| US United States | 299 | 1 in 1.1M | 305 | Mazak | 124 |
| SK Slovakia | 241 | 1 in 23K | 241 | — | 2 |
| CZ Czechia | 235 | 1 in 46K | 235 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 41 | 1 in 934K | 26 | — | — |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 601K | — | Mazak | 1 |
| IE Ireland | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 666K | — | Mazak | 3 |
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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)Mazak is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
nickname from mazac ‘smear’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Polish, felt-tip pen, marker pen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Alberich Mazakb. 1609PLCzech-Austrian composer
- Burak Mazakb. 1994TRTurkish association football player (born 1994)
- Tomasz MazakPLPolish geologist
- Jerzy MazakPLPolish clarinetist
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 305 | #61,544 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 299 | #66,164 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 265 | #77,921 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 26 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 26 | #76,605 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 15 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 15 | #106,657 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
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 Mazak come from?
- A form of Zamak alloy using a different kind of zinc. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Mazak?
- A machine transcription gives /bozɑk/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Mazak mean?
- In Turkish, dwarf, short
- In which country does Mazak have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Mazak in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mazak.
- Where is Mazak most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mazak is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 23 thousand people — even though Türkiye holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mazak?
- In the United States, the national register counted 299 people named Mazak in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million 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/mazakThe 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, “Mazak”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.