Rybák
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Czech: fisher, fisherman
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
/ˈrɪbaːk/(recorded in a dictionary) Czech · from Wiktionary
Rybák is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Poland.
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)a male surname originating as an occupation
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
How Rybák is read
(measured from records)Rybák 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.
- Czech71%
fisher, fisherman
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Slovak24%
a male surname originating as an occupation
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Rybák counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | — | 8.6K | — |
| US United States | — | 2K | — |
| CZ Czechia | — | 433 | — |
| NO Norway | — | 174 | — |
| ES Spain | — | 151 | — |
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)Rybák is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, fisherman
as a nameRussian Surnames
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)- Miloslav Rybákb. 1880CZCzech lawyer and mining expert (1880-??)
- Simona Rybákováb. 1963CZnot in their usual nameCzech costume designer
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 433 | #1,866 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 433 | #3,260 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 432 | #3,567 |
Reference works 1
- 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
- Where does the name Rybák come from?
- a male surname originating as an occupation Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Rybák?
- It depends on the language: in Czech /ˈrɪbaːk/ (Wiktionary); in Slovak /ˈribaːk/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Rybák mean?
- In Czech, fisher, fisherman
- In which country does Rybák have the most bearers?
- Rybák is most frequently recorded in Poland.
What do you want to know about Rybák?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ryb%C3%A1kThe 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, “Rybák”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.