Hlavatý
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: JÚĽŠ SAV, 1995
/ɦlavatiː/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hlavatý is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: nickname for someone with a large head, from an adjectival form of hlava ‘head’.
- USUnited States1 in 384K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 4.8K
- CZCzechia1 in 7.1K
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)
- Record sources
- 192 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.8K (inferred from the name graph)
1,512 people
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 Hlavaty in US United States, LB Lebanon, CM Cameroon and 1 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)nickname for someone with a large head, from an adjectival form of hlava ‘head’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hlavatý 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 | #825 | 1,512 | 1 in 7.1K | 1.5K | Hlavatý | 38 |
| SK Slovakia | #568 | 1,126 | 1 in 4.8K | 1.1K | Hlavatý | 31 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | Hlavaty | 1 |
| US United States | — | 866 | 1 in 384K | 866 | Hlavaty | 192 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 163K | — | Hlavaty | 1 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 137K | — | Hlavaty | 1 |
1,512 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; MVČR — living population register 2017; 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)- Jan Hlavatýb. 1836CZCzech layer
- František Hlavatýb. 1873CZCzech actor and theatre director
- Václav Hlavatýb. 1894USCzech politician and mathematician (*1894 – †1969)
- Vladimír Hlavatýb. 1905CZCzech actor
- Jiří Hlavatýb. 1925CZCzech politician and manager
- Vratislav Hlavatýb. 1934CZCzech illustrator, animator and printmaker (1934–2026)
- Josef Hlavatýb. 1943CZyoung worker who self-immolated in 1969 in Pilsen
- Jiří Hlavatýb. 1948CZCzech entrepreneur and politician
- Petr Hlavatýb. 1958CZCzech singer
- Michal Hlavatýb. 1998CZCzech association football 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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1.5K | #836 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 1.5K | #819 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 1.5K | #831 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 1.1K | — |
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 Hlavatý mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname for someone with a large head, from an adjectival form of hlava ‘head’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hlavatý?
- A machine transcription gives /ɦlavatiː/ (IPA) for Czech.
- In which country does Hlavatý have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Hlavatý, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hlavatý.
- Where is Hlavatý most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hlavatý is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 4.8 thousand people — even though Czechia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hlavatý?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 1,512 people named Hlavatý, about 1 in 7.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Hlavatý compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Hlavatý is the 825th most common surname of 114,573 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hlavat%C3%BDThe 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, “Hlavatý” — the 825th most common surname in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.