Ék

surname · Latin script

Meaning: jewels

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Ék is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 2K
  • NONorway1 in 4.4K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Sweden (measured from records)

9,441 people

Sources
12 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ek in SE Sweden, US United States.

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.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

jewels

Sources 1

  • Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ék 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.

Where Ék is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden9,4411 in 1.1K9.4KEk8
FI Finland2,7771 in 2K2.8K—1
US United States1,8821 in 177K1.9KEk12
NO Norway1,2461 in 4.4K1.2K—1
NL Netherlands871 in 199K87——
DK Denmark401 in 147K40——

9,441 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ék is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Sweden, United States, Morocco

    Also written Ek, E-K, É-K

  • English surname26 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Sweden, Netherlands

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ek, E-K, Êk, Èk, Ěk

  • Croatian surname18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Bulgaria, Sweden

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Eck, Ek, Ȅk, Ếk, Ек

  • Polish surname26 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Czechia, Sweden, United States

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Slovak

    Also written Ek, Ěk, Ëk, Ēķ, Ěķ

4 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ék is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Hungarian, wedge

    as a wordEtymological Dictionary of Hungarian

  • In Hungarian, wedge (tool)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In cdo, a, one, the same, all together at once, R..1

    as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect

  • In cdo, Fig — = to bale out; to transfer liquid

    as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect

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)

500100015002000Li Yi, b. 716Yang Yi, b. 1984Wang Yi, b. 1986Zhang Yi, b. 1987Wang Yi, b. 1992Yang Yi, b. 1995
  • Li Yib. 716not in their usual nameson of the Emperor Xuanzong of Tang
  • Yang Yib. 1984CNnot in their usual nameChinese Go player born 1984
  • Wang Yib. 1986CNnot in their usual nameChinese actor
  • Zhang Yib. 1987CNnot in their usual nameChinese triathlete
  • Wang Yib. 1992CNnot in their usual nameChinese figure skater
  • Yang Yib. 1995CNnot in their usual nameChinese Go player, born 1995
  • Yi-Fu CaiCNnot in their usual namecosmologist

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Ék under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ék mean, and where does it come from?
jewels Recorded by Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian.
In which country does Ék have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 9.4 thousand people named Ék, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ek.
Where is Ék most common?
Ék is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Ék?
In Sweden, the national register counted 9,441 people named Ék, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.

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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, “Ék”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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