Shostak

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Shostak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Ukrainian Шостак (Šostak) and Belarusian Шостак (Šóstak), from Ukrainian шостий (šostyj, “sixth”) and Belarusian шосты (šósty, “sixth”).

rarermore common
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 4.6Kas Шостак(inferred from the name graph)
  • RURussia≈1 in 40Kas Шостак
  • GRGreece≈1 in 80K

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 Shostak 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.

Poland (measured from records)

11,512 named Szostak, 2026

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
185 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 80K (inferred from the name graph)

Greece, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ShostakLatin(measured from records)
ШостакCyrillic(measured from records)
שוסטקHebrew(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Шостак in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, BY Belarus and 2 more and שוסטק in PL Poland.

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)

Derivation of Shostak: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Shostak
  1. UkrainianШостакŠostak(measured from records)
  2. Ukrainianшостийšostyj“sixth”(measured from records)

From Ukrainian Шостак (Šostak) and Belarusian Шостак (Šóstak), from Ukrainian шостий (šostyj, “sixth”) and Belarusian шосты (šósty, “sixth”). Less commonly, a respelling of Polish Szostak, Szóstak, and Slovak Šosták. Ultimately, from a derivative of Proto-Slavic *šestъ (“sixth”).

Sources 1

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Shostak 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.

Where Shostak is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland—11,512as Szostak1 in 3.3K5.8Kשוסטק2
UA Ukraine#406≈9,600 est.≈1 in 4.6K—Шостак47
RU Russia—≈3,500 est.≈1 in 40K—Шостак127
CN China—≈3,400 est.≈1 in 415K—Шостак2
BY Belarus#659≈870 est.≈1 in 11K—Шостак20
TW Taiwan—≈730 est.≈1 in 32K—Шостак1
GR Greece—≈130 est.≈1 in 80K—Shostak2
ES Spain—571 in 877K57Shostak7

11,512 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026, counting the spelling szostak. 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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Shostak is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Shosṭaḳ

33 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Shostak 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, dim of Shestoi.

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

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)

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 18 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Shostak
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026523—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—523#6,259
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026518—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—518#6,182
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—57#41,015
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—57#40,491

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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

What does the name Shostak mean, and where does it come from?
From Ukrainian Шостак (Šostak) and Belarusian Шостак (Šóstak), from Ukrainian шостий (šostyj, “sixth”) and Belarusian шосты (šósty, “sixth”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Shostak have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Szostak, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Shostak?
In Spain, the national register counted 57 people named Shostak, about 1 in 877 thousand residents.
How common is Shostak compared with other names?
In Ukraine, Shostak is the 406th most common surname of 1,177,784 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Shostak” — the 406th most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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