Pijak
surname · Latin script
Meaning: drunkard, drunk
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pɪʒæk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pijak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 135K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 709K
- BRBrazil1 in 3M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 12 (measured from records)
- 1 in 135K (inferred from the name graph)
79 people
Reference-verified
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
drunkard, drunk
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pijak 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.
79 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017, counting the spelling piják. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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)
Pijak is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In nij, treading, stepping on; push with the foot
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In zlm, setting foot upon
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Malay, to step on.
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 71 | #81,629 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 30 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 30 | #70,104 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 24 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 24 | #80,985 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 5 | #120,863 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 5 | #21,072 |
Reference works 2
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Pijak mean, and where does it come from?
- drunkard, drunk Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pijak?
- A machine transcription gives /pɪʒæk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Pijak have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 79 people named Pijak, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pijak.
- Where is Pijak most common?
- Pijak is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 135 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pijak?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 79 people named Pijak, about 1 in 135 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/pijakThe 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, “Pijak”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.