Smaka
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/smɑkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Smaka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- SISlovenia1 in 66K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 191K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- 1 in 66K (inferred from the name graph)
200 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Smaka 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.
200 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Smaka is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, genitive singular of smaks
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, to taste (something)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Vielas ķīmiskā īpašība, ko uztver ar ožas analizatoriem un kas parasti izraisa nepatīkamu kairinājumu; attiecīgā ožas sajūta
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Sociāla grupa; izcelsme
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 106 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 106 | #28,239 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 94 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 94 | #31,574 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 37 | #129,205 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 32 | #10,294 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 15 | #97,717 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 8 | #72,019 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 7 | #86,507 |
Reference works 3
- 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
- How do you pronounce Smaka?
- A machine transcription gives /smɑkə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Smaka have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 200 people named Smaka, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Smaka most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Smaka is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 66 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Smaka?
- In Poland, the national register counted 200 people named Smaka in 2026, about 1 in 191 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/smakaThe 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, “Smaka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.