Baránek
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/baraːnɛk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Baránek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Czech and Slovak Baránek or Polish Baranek.
- SKSlovakia1 in 9.5K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 18K
- CZCzechia1 in 19K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 69 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.5K (inferred from the name graph)
2,103 people, 2026
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)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Baranek in PL Poland, 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)Borrowed from Czech and Slovak Baránek or Polish Baranek.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Baránek 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 2,103 | 1 in 18K | 1.1K | Baranek | 69 |
| US United States | 575 | 1 in 579K | 578 | Baranek | 34 |
| SK Slovakia | 572 | 1 in 9.5K | 572 | Baránek | 21 |
| CZ Czechia | 555 | 1 in 19K | 559 | Baránek | 29 |
| FR France | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 465K | 10 | — | 1 |
| HR Croatia | 14 | 1 in 302K | 14 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 351K | listed | — | 1 |
2,103 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)- Rudolf Baránekb. 1909Czechoslovakian rower
- Lojza Baránekb. 1932UACzech painter (1932-2016)
- Michal Baránekb. 1958SKSlovak athlete
- Jan Baránekb. 1970CZCzech soccer player and soccer coach
- Tomáš Baránekb. 1972CZCzech publisher, businessman and writer (born 1972)
- Vít Baránekb. 1974CZCzech soccer player
- Kamil Baránekb. 1983CZCzech volleyball player
- Daniel Baránekb. 1986CZhistorian, hebraist and university teacher from Czechia
- Jan Baránek, Jr.b. 1993CZCzech soccer player
- Marek Baránekb. 1995CZice hockey player (1995-)
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 572 | — |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 559 | #2,561 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 555 | #2,708 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #192,616 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #307,178 |
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 Baránek mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Czech and Slovak Baránek or Polish Baranek. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Baránek?
- A machine transcription gives /baraːnɛk/ (IPA) for Czech.
- In which country does Baránek have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Baránek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled baranek.
- Where is Baránek most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Baránek is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 9.5 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Baránek?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2,103 people named Baránek in 2026, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Baránek?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bar%C3%A1nekThe 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, “Baránek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.