Zhak
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Zhak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From French Jacques (“James, Jacob”) (from Latin Iacobus, Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), Ancient Greek Ἰακώβ (Iakṓb), Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (Yaʿăqōḇ)).
- PLPoland1 in 450K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 175Kas Schaek
- DKDenmark1 in 189Kas Schak
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 Zhak itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 92 (measured from records)
- 1 in 450K (inferred from the name graph)
146 named Schak, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Zhak in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Schak in US United States, DE Germany, AU Australia and 1 more and Schaek in BE Belgium.
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)- FrenchJacques“James“James, Jacob”(measured from records)
- LatinIacobus(measured from records)
From French Jacques (“James, Jacob”) (from Latin Iacobus, Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), Ancient Greek Ἰακώβ (Iakṓb), Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (Yaʿăqōḇ)).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Zhak is found
(measured from records)Zhak 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 146as Schak | 1 in 2.3M | 151 | Schak | 92 |
| PL Poland | 85 | 1 in 450K | 44 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 67as Schaek | 1 in 175K | 67 | Schaek | 5 |
| DE Germany | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Schak | 22 |
| DK Denmark | 31as Schak | 1 in 189K | 31 | — | 1 |
| AT Austria | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 293K | — | Schak | 9 |
| AU Australia | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Schak | 24 |
146 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Zhak is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Albanian, a male given name, equivalent to English James or Jacob
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zhak mean, and where does it come from?
- From French Jacques (“James, Jacob”) (from Latin Iacobus, Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), Ancient Greek Ἰακώβ (Iakṓb), Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (Yaʿăqōḇ)). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Zhak?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 146 people named Schak, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Poland, Belgium, Germany and Denmark; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Zhak most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zhak is densest in Poland — about 1 in 450 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zhak?
- In Poland, the national register counted 85 people named Zhak in 2026, about 1 in 450 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zhakThe 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, “Zhak” — ranked 118853rd in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.