Szak
surname · Latin script
Meaning: part, phase, stage, section (e.g
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ʃək/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Szak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 273K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 1.5M
- DEGermany≈1 in 3.6M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 51 (measured from records)
- 1 in 273K (inferred from the name graph)
140 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)part, phase, stage, section (e.g. of a day or a year)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Szak 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 140 | 1 in 273K | 76 | — | 1 |
| US United States | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 7.3M | listed | Szak | 51 |
| DE Germany | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | — | Szak | 16 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 5.1M | — | Szak | 2 |
| CA Canada | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 4.5M | — | Szak | 9 |
| CZ Czechia | 7 | 1 in 1.5M | 7 | — | — |
140 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 76 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 76 | #37,257 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 64 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 64 | #41,864 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- Where does the name Szak come from?
- part, phase, stage, section (e.g. of a day or a year) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Szak?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃək/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Szak mean?
- Recorded meaning: part, phase, stage, section (e.g.
- In which country does Szak have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 140 people named Szak, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Szak most common?
- Szak is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 273 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Szak?
- In Poland, the national register counted 140 people named Szak in 2026, about 1 in 273 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Szak?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/szakThe 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, “Szak”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.