Havlicek
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Havlicek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: John, sports personality.
- CZCzechia1 in 2.1K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 28K
- HRCroatia1 in 43K
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
- 66 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
5,180 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 Havlíček in CZ Czechia, SK Slovakia.
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)
John, sports personality
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Havlicek 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.
5,180 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 2020; 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)
Havlicek is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from a pet form of Havel.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Karel Havlicek Borovskyb. 1821CZCzech journalist and writer (1821–1856)
- Jaroslav Havlíčekb. 1896CZCzech novelist (1896-1943)
- Karel Havlíčekb. 1907DECzech painter (1907-1988)
- Karel Havlíčekb. 1913CZCzechoslovak mathematician
- Bedřich Havlíčekb. 1922CZCzech historian
- John Havlicekb. 1940USAmerican basketball player (1940–2019)
- Werner Havlicekb. 1944ATAustrian architect
- Karel Havlíčekb. 1969CZCzech entrepreneur and politician
- Karel Havlíčekb. 1969CZCzech soccer player
- Karel Havlíčekb. 1974CZCzech film and television composer, pianist and music producer (born 1974)
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)
Attested in 14 sources across 6 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Havlicek mean, and where does it come from?
- John, sports personality Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- In which country does Havlicek have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 5.2 thousand people named Havlicek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled havlíček.
- Where is Havlicek most common?
- Havlicek is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Havlicek?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 5,180 people named Havlicek, about 1 in 2.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Havlicek compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Havlicek is the 113th most common surname of 114,573 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Havlicek” — the 113th most common surname in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.