Sawka
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈsɔkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sawka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Polish Sawka.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 7.4Kas Савка(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 194Kas Савка
- PLPoland1 in 26K
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 Sawka 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
- 100 (measured from records)
- 1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,900 named Савка, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Савка in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, BY Belarus and 1 more and Savka in US United States, IT Italy.
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)
Borrowed from Polish Sawka.
Sources 1
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sawka 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 | #767 | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | — | Савка | 37 |
| PL Poland | — | 1,485 | 1 in 26K | 753 | — | 1 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 194K | — | Савка | 100 |
| US United States | — | 575 | 1 in 579K | 592 | Savka | 31 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 430K | — | Savka | 2 |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 178K | — | Савка | 8 |
| FI Finland | — | 17as Savka | 1 in 328K | 17 | Савка | 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Orest Savkab. 1939UAUkrainian actor and playwright
- Ostap Savkab. 1947UASoviet association football player
- Stepan Savkab. 1955UAUkrainian actor
- Halyna Savkab. 1956UAUkrainian poet
- Mariana Savkab. 1973UAUkrainian poet and children's writer
- Karolina Sawkab. 1991PLPolish actress
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 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 753 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 753 | #4,222 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 732 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 732 | #4,236 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 592 | #35,860 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 575 | #38,484 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 537 | #43,339 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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
- 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 Sawka mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Polish Sawka. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Sawka?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈsɔkə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Sawka have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.9 thousand people named Савка in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sawka most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sawka is densest in Poland — about 1 in 26 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sawka?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,485 people named Sawka in 2026, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.
- How common is Sawka compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Sawka is the 767th most common surname of 1,177,784 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sawkaThe 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, “Sawka” — the 767th most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.