Herak
surname · Croatian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Herak is a surname, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Croatian and Czech, written in the Latin script.
- HRCroatia1 in 6.8K◐
- RSSerbia1 in 259K
- SISlovenia1 in 339K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈655 ◐
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 26 ●
- 1 in 6.8K ◐
across 4 countries
recorded for this name
1.7K records
Official registry-verified
Croatia
Spellings & scripts●
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ 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.
Where in the world●
Sorted by estimated bearers.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | #908 | ≈620 | 1.7K rec. | 1 in 6.8K | 598 | Herak | 26 |
| RS Serbia | — | ≈27△ | 6 rec. | 1 in 259K | — | Herak | 4 |
| SI Slovenia | — | ≈6 | 5 rec. | 1 in 339K | 33 | Herak | 2 |
| US United States | — | ≈2 | 12 rec. | 1 in 221M | 112 | Herak | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | — | — | — | — | 7 | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | — | — | — | 3 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | — | — | — | — | 3 | — | — |
| IN India | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
Roughly 620 people in Croatia bear this name (about 1 in 6.8K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Croatian3.9K45%
- Czech2.2K25%
- English1.4K16%
- Slovak87010%
- Ukrainian721%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Croatian | 3,938 | 45% |
| Czech | 2,194 | 25% |
| English | 1,371 | 16% |
| Slovak | 870 | 10% |
| Ukrainian | 72 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Milan Herakb. 1917HRYugoslav/Croatian geologist (1917-2015)
- Ivan Herakb. 1957HRCroatian politician and business executive
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●
Attested in 15 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 598 | #1,127 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 539 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 153 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 127 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 112 | #147,253 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 108 | #150,935 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 103 | #147,095 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 94 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 46 | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 33 | #10,092 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 27 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 23 | — |
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 2026-09-03 data build · 105 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Herak?
- We estimate roughly 655 people bear Herak (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Herak have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 620 people bear Herak in Croatia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled herak.
- Where is Herak most common?
- Herak is densest in Croatia, where we estimate about 1 in 6.8 thousand people carry it.
- How common is Herak compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Herak is the 908th most common surname of 83,715 surnames recorded there.
Query this name via API
curl https://nelma-api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/herakThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Herak” — the 908th most common surname in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.