Sivak

surname · Latin script

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

/ˈsɪvək/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Sivak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Czech Sivák, Slovak Sivák, Ukrainian Сівак (Sivak), Serbo-Croatian Šivak, and Slovak Šivák.

rarermore common
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 9.8Kas Сивак(inferred from the name graph)
  • RURussia≈1 in 54Kas Сивак
  • SKSlovakia1 in 2.7K

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 Sivak 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)

≈4,500 named Сивак, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
128 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovakia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SivakLatin(measured from records)
СивакCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Сивак in UA Ukraine, RU Russia and Sivák in SK Slovakia.

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)

From Czech Sivák, Slovak Sivák, Ukrainian Сівак (Sivak), Serbo-Croatian Šivak, and Slovak Šivák.

Sources 1

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sivak 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 Sivak is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
UA Ukraine#744≈4,500 est.≈1 in 9.8K—Сивак37
PL Poland—4,028as Siwak1 in 9.5K2KSivak12
RU Russia—≈2,600 est.≈1 in 54K—Сивак128
CZ Czechia—2,2701 in 4.7K2.3KSivak39
SK Slovakia#2372,0041 in 2.7K2KSivák55
HR Croatia—2511 in 17K251——

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: MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)

Sivak is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Sivák, Šivak, Šivák

  • Croatian surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Serbia, Netherlands

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Šivak, Сивак, Sivák, Шивак

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Brazil, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Šivák, Šivak, Sivák

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, India, Russia

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Šivak

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Šivak, Sivák

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, United Kingdom, Belgium

    Also written Sivák

30 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Jozef Sivák, b. 1886József Sivák, b. 1943Anatol Sivak, b. 1962Gabriel Sivak, b. 1979Peter Sivák, b. 1982FattyPillow, b. 1992Václav Sivák, b. 1999
  • Jozef Sivákb. 1886SKCzechoslovakian minister of justice of Slovakia, minister of interior of Slovakia, minister of education of Slovakia, member of Czechoslovak national parliament, prime minister of Slovakia, publicist (1886-1959)
  • József Sivákb. 1943HUHungarian economist
  • Anatol Sivakb. 1962BYBelarusian politician (born 1962)
  • Gabriel Sivakb. 1979UYArgentinian composer and pianist
  • Peter Sivákb. 1982USSlovak ice hockey player
  • FattyPillowb. 1992CZnot in their usual nameCzech YouTuber
  • Václav Sivákb. 1999CZKickboxer
  • David SivakAmerican journalist

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)

FormalDear Sivak,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 21 sources across 12 countries.

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 Sivak mean, and where does it come from?
From Czech Sivák, Slovak Sivák, Ukrainian Сівак (Sivak), Serbo-Croatian Šivak, and Slovak Šivák. Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Sivak?
A machine transcription gives /ˈsɪvək/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Sivak have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 4.5 thousand people named Сивак in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Sivak most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sivak is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 2.7 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Sivak?
In Czechia, the national register counted 2,270 people named Sivak, about 1 in 4.7 thousand residents.
How common is Sivak compared with other names?
In Ukraine, Sivak is the 744th 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, “Sivak” — the 744th most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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