Zak

4,999 people in the United States were counted with the surname Zak in the 2020 census, making it the 6,530th most common in the country. That is about one person in 59,800.

By the numbers

People: 4,999
Rank: 6,530th
How common: 1 in 59,800
Per 100,000: 1.7

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Zak described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 93.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.08%

Notable people called Zak

Yakov Zak (1913–1976)Soviet Jewish pianist
Anna Zak (born 2001)Russian-born Israeli singer, actress, and model
Eugeniusz Zak (1884–1926)Polish artist

People named Zak with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Also a first name

Zak has been given to 1,608 American babies as a first name since 1965, peaking in 2004. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.