Zakas
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/zɑkəz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zakas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sierra Leone than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.6M(measured from records)
- LTLithuania≈1 in 16K
- SLSierra Leone≈1 in 28K
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.
- Sierra Leone (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 120 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈240 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Lithuania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zakas 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SL Sierra Leone | #330 | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Zakas | 1 |
| LT Lithuania | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 16K | listed | — | — |
| US United States | — | 130 | 1 in 2.6M | 157 | Zakas | 120 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | listed | Zakas | 7 |
| GR Greece | — | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 593K | 1 | Zakas | 19 |
| LR Liberia | — | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 614K | — | Zakas | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers). 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)
- Joe Zakasb. 1950USAmerican politician
- Nicholas C. Zakasb. 1978USAmerican computer scientist
- Jonas Zakasb. 1997LTLithuanian basketball player (born 1997)
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 8 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 157 | #105,374 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 130 | #130,610 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 128 | #136,082 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- 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
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 Zakas?
- A machine transcription gives /zɑkəz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Zakas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 237 people named Zakas in Sierra Leone, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zakas.
- How common is the name Zakas?
- In the United States, the national register counted 130 people named Zakas in 2010, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.
- How common is Zakas compared with other names?
- In Sierra Leone, Zakas is the 330th most common surname of 628 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zakasThe 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, “Zakas” — the 330th most common surname in Sierra Leone. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.