Scherbak
surname · Latin script
/ʃɝbɑk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Scherbak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 2.7Kas Щербак(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 15Kas Щербак
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 34Kas Щербак
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 Scherbak 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
- 146 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 241K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 named Щербак, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Angola, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Щербак in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and 2 more.
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 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Scherbak 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 | #193 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Щербак | 51 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈9,500 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Щербак | 146 |
| PL Poland | — | 1,073as Shcherbak | 1 in 36K | 587 | — | 1 |
| CN China | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Щербак | 3 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 34K | 300 | Щербак | 32 |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Щербак | 16 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 241K | — | Scherbak | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 72 | 1 in 2.9M | 72 | — | 3 |
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: 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Russians, by region of residence; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
- Mořic Scherbakb. 1878CZHolocaust victim (born 1878)
- Charon Wictorb. 1907HUnot in their usual nameHungarian composer, occultist (1907-1976)
- Tamara Scherbakdirector and filmmaker
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 7 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 72 | #80,790 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #239,244 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #390,645 |
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
- How do you pronounce Scherbak?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃɝbɑk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Scherbak have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Щербак in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Scherbak?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 72 people named Scherbak, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.
- How common is Scherbak compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Scherbak is the 193rd most common surname of 1,177,784 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Scherbak?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/scherbakThe 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, “Scherbak” — the 193rd most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.