Zelenak Surname

252,790th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,565 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Slovakia

Zelenak Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Zelenak Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States1,2201:297,09727,478
Serbia1091:65,5505,968
Slovakia841:63,52912,320
Germany241:3,354,394150,996
Canada211:1,754,552114,935
Austria181:473,08046,251
Romania161:1,254,86753,509
Hungary151:654,41837,235
Ireland141:336,35312,021
Australia121:2,249,64297,973
Brazil71:30,582,047441,004
Croatia71:604,08640,820
Ukraine61:7,587,116277,111
Japan41:31,961,07353,820
England31:18,572,686338,250
Czechia21:5,316,734169,646
New Zealand11:4,528,32355,372
Norway11:5,142,286129,201
Belarus11:9,501,059159,228

The alternate forms: Zelenák (1,531), Želenák (1) & Zeleńák (1) are calculated separately.

Zelenak Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Zelenak Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Zelenak is more commonly found in The United States than any other country/territory. It can also occur as: Zelenák, Želenák or Zeleńák. Click here to see other possible spellings of Zelenak.

How Common Is The Last Name Zelenak? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 252,790th most commonly occurring surname on earth It is held by around 1 in 4,656,579 people. The last name Zelenak is mostly found in The Americas, where 78 percent of Zelenak live; 78 percent live in North America and 78 percent live in Anglo-North America.

This surname is most common in The United States, where it is borne by 1,220 people, or 1 in 297,097. In The United States Zelenak is primarily found in: Michigan, where 17 percent are found, Pennsylvania, where 12 percent are found and Ohio, where 11 percent are found. Without taking into account The United States Zelenak exists in 18 countries. It is also found in Serbia, where 7 percent are found and Slovakia, where 5 percent are found.

Zelenak Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those holding the Zelenak surname are 6.96% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US average, with 60.19% being registered to vote for the political party.

The amount Zelenak earn in different countries varies notably. In United States they earn 2.67% less than the national average, earning $41,996 USD per year and in Canada they earn 17.39% more than the national average, earning $58,321 CAD per year.

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Zelenak
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