Bodlák
surname · Latin script
Meaning: thistle
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: JÚĽŠ SAV, 1995
Bodlák is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 24K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 363K
- PLPoland1 in 751K
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 Bodlák 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.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 25 (measured from records)
- 1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
451 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bodlak in US United States, PL Poland and Бодлак in UA Ukraine.
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)thistle
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bodlák 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | 451 | 1 in 24K | 452 | Bodlák | 25 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 316K | — | Бодлак | 11 |
| US United States | 111 | 1 in 3M | 111 | Bodlak | 14 |
| PL Poland | 51 | 1 in 751K | 29 | Bodlak | 6 |
| SK Slovakia | 15 | 1 in 363K | 15 | Bodlák | 2 |
451 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; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; 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)- Stanislav Bodlákb. 1924CZCzech soldier
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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 452 | #3,143 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 451 | #3,415 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 15 | — |
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 Bodlák mean, and where does it come from?
- thistle Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Bodlák have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 451 people named Bodlák, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bodlák.
- Where is Bodlák most common?
- Bodlák is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 24 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bodlák?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 451 people named Bodlák, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bodlák?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bodl%C3%A1kThe 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, “Bodlák”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.