Šenk
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ʂe˨˦ŋk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Šenk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of Sęk.
- SISlovenia1 in 6.6K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 12K
- HRCroatia1 in 86K
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.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 49 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.6K (inferred from the name graph)
916 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Senk in US United States, PL Poland, 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)Variant of Sęk.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Wiktionary
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Šenk 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.
916 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)- František Šenkb. 1914CZCzech sculptor
- Leon Šenkb. 1926SISlovene veterinarian
- Nuša Šenkb. 1981SIslovene model
- Nina Šenkb. 1982SISlovene composer
- Jana Šenkováb. 1982CZnot in their usual nameCzech volleyball player
- Michal Šenkb. 1984CZCzech journalist
- Janez ŠenkSItelevision director
- Katarina ŠenkSISlovenian researcher
- Tatjana ŠenkSIresearcher
- Peter ŠenkSISlovenian architect
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 916 | #1,489 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 911 | #1,277 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 911 | #1,482 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 319 | #1,195 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 49 | #13,469 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 48 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 46 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #391,776 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Šenk mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Sęk. Recorded by Wiktionary and Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003).
- How do you pronounce Šenk?
- A machine transcription gives /ʂe˨˦ŋk/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- In which country does Šenk have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 916 people named Šenk, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled šenk.
- Where is Šenk most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Šenk is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 6.6 thousand people — even though Czechia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Šenk?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 916 people named Šenk, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Šenk?
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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%A1enkThe 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, “Šenk”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.