Pajak
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈpaɪək/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pajak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Polish Pająk (“spider”).
- PLPoland1 in 2.3K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 158K
- USUnited States1 in 246K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 223 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
16,931 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Polish Pająk (“spider”).
Sources 1
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pajak 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 | 16,931 | 1 in 2.3K | 8.5K | Pajak | 86 |
| US United States | 1,352 | 1 in 246K | 1.4K | Pajak | 223 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 158K | 153 | Pajak | 63 |
| DE Germany | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 240K | — | Pajak | 60 |
| FR France | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 215K | 38 | — | 2 |
| NO Norway | 68 | 1 in 80K | 68 | Pajak | 5 |
| DK Denmark | 38 | 1 in 154K | 38 | — | — |
| IE Ireland | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 146K | — | Pajak | 8 |
16,931 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026, counting the spelling pająk. 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Pajak 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.
In iba, press, compress, cram in, beat down.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Javanese, nonstandard spelling of pajeg
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)
- Jacques Pajakb. 1930FRFrench painter (1930–1965)
- Frédéric Pajakb. 1955FRSwiss writer, draughtsperson, editor and screenwriter (born 1955)
- Alexandra Pajakb. 1981USAmerican composer
- Daria Pajakb. 1993PLPolish-American professional bowler
- Benjamin Pajakb. 2011USAmerican actor
- Karl PajakUSAmerican artist, animator and musician
- Dominic PajakGBBritish technology executive and computer scientist
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 24 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,878 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #18,927 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,777 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 153 | #25,297 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 68 | #21,173 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 60 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 58 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 57 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 41 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 39 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 38 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 38 | #13,653 |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 does the name Pajak mean, and where does it come from?
- From Polish Pająk (“spider”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Pajak?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈpaɪək/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Pajak have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Pajak, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pajak.
- Where is Pajak most common?
- Pajak is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pajak?
- In Poland, the national register counted 16,931 people named Pajak in 2026, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Pajak?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pajakThe 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, “Pajak”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.