Dušek
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/duʃɛk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dušek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: »madrac, blazina, vänjkuš«.
- CZCzechia1 in 2K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 41K
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 44K
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.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 75 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
5,235 people
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 Dusek in US United States, GT Guatemala, SK Slovakia and 2 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)
»madrac, blazina, vänjkuš«
Sources 1
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dušek 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 | #147 | 5,235 | 1 in 2K | 5.2K | Dušek | 64 |
| US United States | — | 2,088 | 1 in 159K | 2.1K | Dusek | 75 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Dusek | 1 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Dusek | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 339K | — | Dusek | 18 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 107 | 1 in 51K | 107 | Dusek | 15 |
| HR Croatia | — | 104 | 1 in 41K | 104 | — | — |
5,235 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; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Dušek is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Serbo-Croatian, mattress
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, »madrac, blazina, vänjkuš«
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- František Xaver Dušekb. 1731CZCzech composer, pianist and harpsichordist
- Jiří Dušekb. 1924CZCzech dubbing actor, actor and composer (1924–2023)
- Zdeněk Dušekb. 1942CZCzech actor and director
- Ladislav Dušekb. 1943CZCzech actor and local politician
- Dušan Dušekb. 1946SKSlovak poet, dramatic and writer
- Jaroslav Dušekb. 1961CZCzech actor and presenter
- Robert Dušekb. 1967CZCzech member of Czech Parliament (2006–2010), manager and local politician
- Libor Dušekb. 1983CZCzech anthropologist
- Jan Dušekb. 1985CZCzech composer
- Antonín Dušekb. 1986CZCzech ice hockey player
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)
Attested in 12 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 5.2K | #130 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 5.2K | #130 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 5.2K | #131 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 107 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 104 | #7,659 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 93 | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
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 Dušek mean, and where does it come from?
- »madrac, blazina, vänjkuš« Recorded by Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74).
- How do you pronounce Dušek?
- A machine transcription gives /duʃɛk/ (IPA) for Czech.
- In which country does Dušek have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 5.2 thousand people named Dušek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dušek.
- Where is Dušek most common?
- Dušek is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Dušek?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 5,235 people named Dušek, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Dušek compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Dušek is the 147th most common surname of 114,573 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Dušek?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/du%C5%A1ekThe 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, “Dušek” — the 147th most common surname in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.