Zhuk
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Zhuk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country, where it is the 91st most common surname. In Russian, recorded as "beetle".
- BYBelarus≈1 in 1.3Kas Жук(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 1.7Kas Жук
- RURussia≈1 in 8.9Kas Жук
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 Zhuk 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
- 151 (measured from records)
- 1 in 98K (inferred from the name graph)
≈26,000 named Жук, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Жук in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, BY Belarus and 1 more.
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)
"beetle."
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
How Zhuk is read(measured from records)
Zhuk is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Ukrainian83%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Zhuk in Ukrainian.
- Russian6.6%
"beetle."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
- English5.5%
A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Жук (Žuk).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zhuk 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 | #91 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Жук | 63 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.9K | — | Жук | 151 |
| BY Belarus | #35 | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 2 | Жук | 34 |
| PL Poland | — | 7,205as Żuk | 1 in 5.3K | 3.6K | — | 2 |
| TW Taiwan | #680 | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Жук | 1 |
| ES Spain | — | 173 | 1 in 289K | 173 | Zhuk | 15 |
| NO Norway | — | 56 | 1 in 98K | 56 | — | 2 |
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: Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
- Nina Zhukb. 1934RUSoviet pair skater
- Valentin Zhukb. 1934RUSoviet and Dutch violinist
- Stanislav Zhukb. 1935RUSoviet pair skater and coach
- Vadim Zhukb. 1952BYBelarusian football referee
- Aleksey Zhukb. 1955RUSoviet handball player and trainer
- Yawhen Zhukb. 1976BYBelarusian-Israeli footballer
- Vadym Zhukb. 1991UAassociation football player
- Iryna Zhukb. 1993BYBelarusian pole vaulter
- Vital Zhukb. 1996BYBelarusian decathlete
- Elizaveta Zhukb. 2003CZRussian-Czech pair skater
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)
Attested in 21 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.6K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.6K | #1,745 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.6K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.6K | #1,817 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 173 | #18,476 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 173 | #18,393 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 56 | #24,214 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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
- What does the name Zhuk mean, and where does it come from?
- "beetle." Recorded by A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996).
- In which country does Zhuk have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 26 thousand people named Жук in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Zhuk most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zhuk is densest in Norway — about 1 in 98 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zhuk?
- In Spain, the national register counted 173 people named Zhuk, about 1 in 289 thousand residents.
- How common is Zhuk compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Zhuk is the 91st most common surname of 1,177,784 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Zhuk?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zhukThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Zhuk” — the 91st most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.