Spevak

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

Spevak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Czech Spěvák and Slovak Spevák.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 631K(measured from records)
  • RURussia≈1 in 349Kas Спевак
  • CZCzechia1 in 26K

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 Spevak 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.

United States (measured from records)

527 people, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
177 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SpevakLatin(measured from records)
СпевакCyrillic(measured from records)

Locally spelled Спевак in RU Russia.

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)

Borrowed from Czech Spěvák and Slovak Spevák.

Sources 1

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Spevak 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 Spevak is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States5271 in 631K527Spevak177
CZ Czechia4171 in 26K417Spevak22
RU Russia≈410 est.≈1 in 349K—Спевак97
SA Saudi Arabia≈110 est.≈1 in 310K—Spevak1
GB United Kingdom≈75 est.≈1 in 874K—Spevak6
RS Serbia≈54 est.≈1 in 130KlistedSpevak3
AT Austria≈32 est.≈1 in 277K—Spevak14
PS Palestine≈27 est.≈1 in 179K—Spevak2

527 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; 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Colombia, Honduras

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Spěvák, Spevák

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Spěvák

  • Croatian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Serbia, United States

    Languages: Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian

    Also written Спевак, Spěvák

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Spevák, Spěvák

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Spěvák

  • English surname13 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, Hebrew, German

    Also written Spivak, ספיבק, Spivák, Spivaḳ, Spìvak

25 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)

Spevak 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, Kirilo Spevak, peasant. 1631.

    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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Spevak,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Spevak
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010527#41,303
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000520#39,756
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020484#47,272
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—1#226,339
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—1#25,949
US United Stateswru 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 Spevak mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Czech Spěvák and Slovak Spevák. Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Spevak?
A machine transcription gives /ˈspɛvək/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Spevak have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 527 people named Spevak, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled spevak.
Where is Spevak most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Spevak is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 26 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Spevak?
In the United States, the national register counted 527 people named Spevak in 2010, about 1 in 631 thousand residents.

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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, “Spevak”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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