Zugaj

surname · Latin script

/zuɡaɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Zugaj is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 50K(measured from records)
  • FRFrance≈1 in 1.3M
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M

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.

Poland (measured from records)

772 people, 2026

Sources
47 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Zugaj 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.

Where Zugaj is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland7721 in 50K401Zugaj47
US United States≈62 est.≈1 in 5.4MlistedZugaj20
FR France≈52 est.≈1 in 1.3M11——
GB United Kingdom≈14 est.≈1 in 4.6M8Zugaj8
ES Spain91 in 5.6M9——
CH Switzerland31 in 2.8M3——

772 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); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Zugaj is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Croatian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Serbia, Canada

    Languages: Croatian, Serbian

    Also written Žugaj, Жугај

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Žugaj, Żugaj

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Žugaj

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Żugaj, Žugaj

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Żugaj, Žugaj

  • Danish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark

    Also written Žugaj

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Žugaj

18 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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)

FormalDear Zugaj,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Zugaj
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026401—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—401#8,280
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026371—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—371#8,766
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199111—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196111—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—9#126,713
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)20028#167,220
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19317—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19716—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19216—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20243#154,370

Reference works 3

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 Zugaj?
A machine transcription gives /zuɡaɪ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Zugaj have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 772 people named Zugaj, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zugaj.
Where is Zugaj most common?
Zugaj is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 50 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Zugaj?
In Poland, the national register counted 772 people named Zugaj in 2026, about 1 in 50 thousand residents.

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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, “Zugaj”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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