Sotak
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Sotak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Slovak Soták.
- CZCzechia1 in 167K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 586K
- BEBelgium1 in 3.9M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 169 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 128K (inferred from the name graph)
568 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guatemala, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Slovak Soták.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sotak 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 568 | 1 in 586K | 624 | Sotak | 169 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 128K | — | Sotak | 1 |
| IT Italy | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 648K | — | Sotak | 1 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 694K | — | Sotak | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 64 | 1 in 167K | 64 | — | 2 |
568 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)- Joe Sotakb. 1914USAmerican basketball player (1914-1984)
- Štefan Sotákb. 1927SKSlovak association football player, coach and functionary
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 624 | #34,342 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 568 | #38,850 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 508 | #45,381 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 6 | #106,145 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 6 | #20,181 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- What does the name Sotak mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Slovak Soták. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Sotak have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 568 people named Sotak, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sotak.
- How common is the name Sotak?
- In the United States, the national register counted 568 people named Sotak in 2010, about 1 in 586 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sotak?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sotakThe 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, “Sotak”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.