Zajać
surname · Latin script
Zajać is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From a Slavic language, e.g. Polish Zając, from zając (“hare”), or Slovak, Sorbian, and Serbo-Croatian zajac ("hare").
- PLPoland1 in 717(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 2.6K
- NONorway1 in 14K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 139 (measured from records)
- 1 in 717 (inferred from the name graph)
53,382 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Zajac 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(measured from records)
From a Slavic language, e.g. Polish Zając, from zając (“hare”), or Slovak, Sorbian, and Serbo-Croatian zajac ("hare").
Sources 1
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zajać 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.
53,382 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); MVČR — living population register 2017; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zajać mean, and where does it come from?
- From a Slavic language, e.g. Polish Zając, from zając (“hare”), or Slovak, Sorbian, and Serbo-Croatian zajac ("hare"). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Zajać have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 53 thousand people named Zajać, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Zajać most common?
- Zajać is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 717 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Zajać?
- In Poland, the national register counted 53,382 people named Zajać in 2026, about 1 in 717 residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zaja%C4%87The 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, “Zajać”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.