Štaka
surname · Latin script
Meaning: crutch
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: DZS, 2021
Štaka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Serbia than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 50K(measured from records)
- RSSerbia≈1 in 59K
- SISlovenia1 in 131K
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.
- Serbia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)
≈120 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Staka in HR Croatia, RS Serbia, BA Bosnia & Herzegovina 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)crutch
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Štaka 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RS Serbia | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Staka | 8 |
| HR Croatia | 84 | 1 in 50K | 84 | Staka | 8 |
| SI Slovenia | 16 | 1 in 131K | 16 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 50M | listed | Staka | 3 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | — | — | — | Staka | 3 |
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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SURS — resident population given names. 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)Štaka 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 Serbo-Croatian, episkopska palica; štap na koji se opire hrom čovjek, štula
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Andrea Štakab. 1973CHSwiss film director and screenwriter (born 1973)
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)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 35 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 33 | #17,438 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Štaka mean, and where does it come from?
- crutch Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Štaka have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 119 people named Štaka in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled staka.
- Where is Štaka most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Štaka is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 50 thousand people — even though Serbia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Štaka?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 84 people named Štaka in 2021, about 1 in 50 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/%C5%A1takaThe 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, “Štaka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.