Zak
A Hebrew name at root, from a phrase meaning "god has remembered". Most Poles will go a lifetime without meeting one: fewer than thirty people carry it, nearly all of them men.
Zak Pronunciation
Zak is pronounced ZAHK (/zak/).
What Zak means
Where Zak comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zak begins in Hebrew, in the name Zekharyah, which meant "God has remembered." English speakers shortened Zachariah to Zachary, and Zak is the clipped, everyday form of that longer name. The meaning held: god has remembered.
In the Hebrew Bible, Zechariah is a prophet, and the name returns across the text many times. The idea underneath it is memory as a promise kept. When a child was named Zekharyah, the name recorded that a prayer had been answered.
Zak reads as English now. It fits on a class register in Kraków as easily as in Leeds. Short. Blunt. Friendly. In Poland it arrives without a name-day of its own, so it borrows the pull of a foreign sound rather than any local patron. The full sense still sits under the three letters: god has remembered.
How many people are named Zak
1 in 790600 men in Poland is named Zak. 29 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7767 among male names.
Zak's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Zak as a middle name
Zak is a first name for 29 men in Poland and a middle name for another 8, a 78/22 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3730th, between Yuri (8) and Zeeshan (8).
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#3728 Yudi8
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#3729 Yuri8
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#3730 Zak8
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#3731 Zeeshan8
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#3732 Zelig8