# Solak (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/solak/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Turkish |
| Type | occupational, named after the work an ancestor did |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 629 |
| US rank (2010) | 35,721 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 490,851 people |
| Change since 2000 | -3.1% (649 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Various origins: * Borrowed from Turkish Solak, from solak (“left-handed”). * Borrowed from Polish Solak, a metonymic occupational surname for a seller or producer of salt, from sól (“salt”). * Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Šolak.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Solak in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 94% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 4.0% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.0% |
| Two or more races | 0.8% |

## Similar surnames

Slack, Salak, Solache, Solis, Salas, Schulz, Seals, Scales, Sales, Soliz, Sells, Schulze.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.