Hañek
surname · Latin script
Hañek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from (Jo)hdnek, Czech pet form of the German personal name Johann.
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 42K
- JOJordan≈1 in 53K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 119 (measured from records)
- 1 in 42K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,200 people, est.
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 Hanek in US United States, DE Germany, PL Poland 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)
from (Jo)hdnek, Czech pet form of the German personal name Johann.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hañek 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hañek mean, and where does it come from?
- from (Jo)hdnek, Czech pet form of the German personal name Johann. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Hañek have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.2 thousand people named Hañek in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hanek.
- Where is Hañek most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hañek is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 42 thousand people — even though Pakistan holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hañek?
- In the United States, the national register counted 268 people named Hañek in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ha%C3%B1ekThe 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, “Hañek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.