Řízek
surname · Latin script
Meaning: schnitzel, escalope, cutlet (slice of meat) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Řízek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 288 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- CZCzechia1 in 64K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 11 (measured from records)
- 1 in 64K (inferred from the name graph)
288 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Rizek in US United States, SK Slovakia.
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)schnitzel, escalope, cutlet (slice of meat)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Řízek is found
(measured from records)Řízek 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 288 | 1 in 1.2M | 310 | Rizek | 6 |
| CZ Czechia | 166 | 1 in 64K | 166 | Řízek | 11 |
| BR Brazil | 45 | 1 in 4.7M | 45 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | 1 |
| SK Slovakia | — | — | — | Rizek | 10 |
288 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Tomáš Řízekb. 1963CZCzech illustrator
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)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Řízek mean, and where does it come from?
- schnitzel, escalope, cutlet (slice of meat) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Řízek?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 288 people named Řízek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rizek. After it come Czechia, Brazil and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Řízek most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Řízek is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 64 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Řízek?
- In the United States, the national register counted 288 people named Řízek in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%99%C3%ADzekThe 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, “Řízek” — ranked 68345th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.