Šmolka
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Šmolka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Polish Smolka, Smółka and Smołka.
- SKSlovakia1 in 8.1K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 10K
- DEGermany≈1 in 41K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Šmolka itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 176 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovakia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Smolka in US United States, DE Germany, CZ Czechia and 3 more.
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)Borrowed from Polish Smolka, Smółka and Smołka.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Šmolka 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.
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; MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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)- Adolf Šmolkab. 1861CZholocaust victim, b. 1861-12-13
- Bohumil Šmolkab. 1880CZHolocaust victim (born 1880)
- Edmund Šmolkab. 1880Holocaust victim (born 1880)
- Jaroslav Šmolkab. 1880CZholocaust victim, b. 1880-08-02
- Hugo Šmolkab. 1883CZHolocaust victim (born 1883)
- Jaroslav Šmolkab. 1885CZholocaust victim, b. 1885-08-23
- Emil Šmolkab. 1888CZholocaust victim, b. 1888-10-10
- Emil Šmolkab. 1889PLholocaust victim, b. 1889-11-01
- Adolf Šmolkab. 1911holocaust victim, b. 1911-11-09
- Hanuš Pavel Šmolkab. 1919ATHolocaust victim (born 1919)
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.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 27 | #44,669 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 27 | #13,855 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Šmolka mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Polish Smolka, Smółka and Smołka. Recorded by Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames) and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Šmolka have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Šmolka in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled smolka.
- Where is Šmolka most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Šmolka is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 8.1 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Šmolka?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 1,040 people named Šmolka, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
- How common is Šmolka compared with other names?
- In Slovakia, Šmolka is the 690th most common surname of 69,668 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%A1molkaThe 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, “Šmolka” — the 690th most common surname in Slovakia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.