Halak
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Biblical name (Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/haɫak/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Halak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Syria than in any other country. Halak is also written หาหลัก in Thai.
- SYSyria≈1 in 7.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 54K
- SESweden1 in 146K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Halak itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Syria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 28 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,400 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Halak in other scripts: Thai
(measured from records)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.
How to pronounce Halak
- Turkish:/haɫak/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Biblical name
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Halak is found
(measured from records)Halak 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY Syria | #562 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | — | Halak | 17 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 242K | — | Halak | 17 |
| IN India | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 4.6M | 1 | — | 3 |
| PL Poland | — | 239 | 1 in 160K | 138 | — | — |
| IL Israel | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Halak | 5 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Halak | 13 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Halak | 5 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 1 | 1 in 54K | 1 | — | — |
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); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)Halak is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Filipino, raspy, gargling, or raucous sound of the voice due to catarrh or a cold
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bbc, person, people
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In cjm, caterpillar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In css, blindman
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, Pisces
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)- Beatriz Susana Halakb. 1950ARArgentinian politician
- Michael Halakb. 1975ILIsraeli painter (1975–)
- Basel HalakGBresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0003-3470-7226
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Halak mean, and where does it come from?
- Biblical name Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Halak?
- In Turkish /haɫak/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Halak?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.4 thousand people named Halak in Syria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled halak. After it come Türkiye, India, Poland and Israel; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Halak?
- In Poland, the national register counted 239 people named Halak in 2026, about 1 in 160 thousand residents.
- How common is Halak compared with other names?
- In Syria, Halak is the 562nd most common surname of 190,062 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/halakThe 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, “Halak” — the 562nd most common surname in Syria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.