as a Last Name
- 8,451
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Kozak
Meaning & Origins
Ukrainian, Polish, Sorbian; Czech, Slovak, and Hungarian (Kozák): ethnic name for a Cossack, a member of a people descended from a group of runaway serfs who set up a semiindependent military republic in Ukraine in the 15th and 16th centuries. The Cossacks became noted for their military prowess. The word Cossack is of Turkic origin, but most European languages borrowed it from eastern Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian kazák, kozák). This term also came to be used as a nickname for a pert fellow, a devil-maycare blusterer.
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 8,451
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Pennsylvania
- has the most people named Kozak per capita
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