Tretiak
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tɹɛtiæk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tretiak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 3.5Kas Третяк(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 24Kas Третьяк
- PLPoland1 in 30K
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 Tretiak 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 133 (measured from records)
- 1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 named Третяк, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Третьяк in RU Russia, BY Belarus, CN China and 1 more and Третяк in UA Ukraine.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tretiak 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | #212 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Третяк | 46 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 24K | listed | Третьяк | 133 |
| CN China | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 969K | — | Третьяк | 1 |
| PL Poland | — | 1,285 | 1 in 30K | 691 | — | 1 |
| BY Belarus | #437 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | — | Третьяк | 20 |
| TW Taiwan | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Третьяк | 1 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 104as Tretjak | 1 in 20K | 104 | — | 1 |
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); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
- Józef Tretiakb. 1841UAwriter
- Ivan Tretyakb. 1923RUnot in their usual nameSoviet military commander (1923–2007)
- Viktor Tretyakevichb. 1924RUnot in their usual name(1924-1943)
- Vasiliy Tret'yakb. 1926UAnot in their usual nameSoviet singer and opera singer (1926-1989)
- Vladislav Tretiakb. 1952RURussian ice hockey player
- Serhiy Tretyakb. 1963UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian footballer (born 1963)
- Oksana Tretyakovab. 1979RUnot in their usual nameRussian ice hockey player
- Vladyslav Tretiakb. 1980UAUkrainian fencer
- Serhiy Tretyakb. 1984UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian footballer (born 1984)
- Maksym Tretyakb. 1984UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian boxer
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)
Attested in 21 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 691 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 691 | #4,616 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 594 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 594 | #5,337 |
Reference works 4
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Tretiak?
- A machine transcription gives /tɹɛtiæk/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- In which country does Tretiak have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Третяк in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Tretiak most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tretiak is densest in Poland — about 1 in 30 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tretiak?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,285 people named Tretiak in 2026, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
- How common is Tretiak compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Tretiak is the 212th most common surname of 1,177,784 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tretiak?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tretiakThe 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, “Tretiak” — the 212th most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.