Tschajka
surname · Latin script
Tschajka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 2.7Kas Чайка(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 15Kas Чайка
- USUnited States1 in 297Kas Czajka
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 Tschajka 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
- 150 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 named Чайка, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland, as Czajka
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Чайка in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, BY Belarus and Chayka in US United States.
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 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tschajka 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 | #196 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Чайка | 53 |
| PL Poland | — | 14,604as Czajka | 1 in 2.6K | 7.4K | — | 1 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈9,600 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Чайка | 150 |
| US United States | — | 1,119as Czajka | 1 in 297K | 1.1K | Chayka | 129 |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Чайка | 18 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 361as Čajka | 1 in 15K | 361 | — | — |
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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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)
- Dniprova Chaykab. 1861UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian writer (1861–1927)
- Volodymyra Chaikab. 1928UAUkrainian opera singer
- Maryya Chaykab. 1929BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian botanist (1929-1997)
- Anatoly Chaykab. 1942RUnot in their usual nameRussian scientist
- Yury Chaikab. 1951RURussian politician
- Valentin Chaykab. 1953RUnot in their usual nameRussian politician
- Alyaksandr Chaykab. 1976BYnot in their usual namefootballer
- Daniil Chaykab. 2002RUnot in their usual nameRussian ice hockey player
- Glenn Chaikaanimator
- Dan Chaikaanimator
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Tschajka have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Чайка in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Tschajka most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Tschajka itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Poland's: the national register counts about 1 in 2.6 thousand people named Czajka.
- How common is the name Tschajka?
- In Poland, the national register counted 14,604 people named Czajka in 2026, about 1 in 2.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Tschajka compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Tschajka is the 196th most common surname of 1,177,784 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tschajka?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tschajkaThe 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, “Tschajka” — the 196th most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.