Žuk
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 'beetle'
/ʒuk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Žuk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 5.3K(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 54K
- ARArgentina1 in 105K
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)
- Sources
- 24 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.3K (inferred from the name graph)
7,205 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Zuk in US United States.
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
- Russian Surnames
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Žuk 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.
7,205 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the ee-stat-nimed register. 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)
Žuk 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 kls, to eat
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nina Zhukb. 1934RUnot in their usual nameSoviet pair skater
- Valentin Zhukb. 1934RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Dutch violinist
- Stanislav Zhukb. 1935RUnot in their usual nameSoviet pair skater and coach
- Vadim Zhukb. 1952BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian football referee
- Aleksey Zhukb. 1955RUnot in their usual nameSoviet handball player and trainer
- Yawhen Zhukb. 1976BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian-Israeli footballer
- Vadym Zhukb. 1991UAnot in their usual nameassociation football player
- Iryna Zhukb. 1993BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian pole vaulter
- Vital Zhukb. 1996BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian decathlete
- Elizaveta Zhukb. 2003CZnot in their usual nameRussian-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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 34 | #3,100 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 26 | #4,124 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Žuk mean, and where does it come from?
- 'beetle' Recorded by Russian Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Žuk?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒuk/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- In which country does Žuk have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 7.2 thousand people named Žuk, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Žuk most common?
- Žuk is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Žuk?
- In Poland, the national register counted 7,205 people named Žuk in 2026, about 1 in 5.3 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Žuk?
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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%BEukThe 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, “Žuk”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.