Poliak
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Poliak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 9.6Kas Поляк(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 66Kas Поляк
- USUnited States1 in 472Kas Polyak
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 Poliak 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.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 202 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,600 named Поляк, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovakia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Поляк in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, BY Belarus and 1 more and Polyak in US United States.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Poliak 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | — | Поляк | 37 |
| HR Croatia | — | 3,649as Poljak | 1 in 1.2K | 3.6K | — | — |
| RU Russia | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Поляк | 118 |
| US United States | — | 704as Polyak | 1 in 472K | 704 | Polyak | 202 |
| TW Taiwan | — | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Поляк | 1 |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Поляк | 14 |
| PL Poland | — | 457 | 1 in 84K | 241 | Poliak | 8 |
| SK Slovakia | #683 | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Poliak | 48 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 189as Poljak | 1 in 11K | 189 | — | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Poliak 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 Russian, "Pole" [polite].
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Slovak, Pole (Polish person)
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)
- František Poliakb. 1872SKCzechoslovak senator of Czechoslovak National Parliament and Slovak nation politician (1872-1933)
- Daniel Brailovskyb. 1958ARnot in their usual nameArgentine footballer
- Meira Polliackb. 1964ILnot in their usual nameProfessor of humanities in Tel Aviv University
- Vladislav Polyakb. 1975UAUkrainian entrepreneur and politician
- Michal Poliakb. 1979CZCzech diskjockey and techno musician
- Lenka Poliakováb. 1985CZnot in their usual nameCzech zoologist, manager and university teacher
- Matej Poliakb. 1993SKSlovak judoka
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 241 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 241 | #13,539 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 216 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 216 | #15,298 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 204 | #85,297 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- In which country does Poliak have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.6 thousand people named Поляк in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Poliak?
- In Poland, the national register counted 457 people named Poliak in 2026, about 1 in 84 thousand residents.
- How common is Poliak compared with other names?
- In Slovakia, Poliak is the 683rd most common surname of 69,668 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Poliak?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/poliakThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Poliak” — the 683rd most common surname in Slovakia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.