Horák

surname · Latin script

Meaning: a male surname meaning “one who comes from the highlands”

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ɦoraːk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Horák is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 113K(measured from records)
  • CZCzechia1 in 880
  • SKSlovakia1 in 8.3K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Czechia (measured from records)

12,161 people

Sources
285 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 880 (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Horak in US United States, AT Austria, PL Poland 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)

a male surname meaning “one who comes from the highlands”

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Horák 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.

Where Horák is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia—12,1611 in 88012K—4
US United States—2,9471 in 113K2.9KHorak285
PL Poland—6631 in 58K358Horak1
SK Slovakia—6541 in 8.3K654—2
HR Croatia—3381 in 13K338——
CH Switzerland—931 in 90K93Horak8
AT Austria#778———Horak71

12,161 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); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Horák is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Hořák, Hôrak, Horak, Hõrak

  • Ukrainian surname44 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Czechia, United States, Russia

    Languages: Ukrainian, Czech, Russian

    Also written Горак, Horak, Хорак, Hõrak, โฮราค

18 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Václav Emanuel Horák, b. 1800Johann Horrak, b. 1815Václav Horák, b. 1912Antonín Horák, b. 1918Jiří Horák, b. 1924Josef Horák, b. 1931Roman Horák, b. 1969Slávek Horák, b. 1975Martin Horák, b. 1980Roman Horák, b. 1991

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)

FormalVážený pane / paní Horák,Dear Horák, (English)
InformalVážený pane / paní Horák,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Horák
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—12K#20
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—12K#19
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—12K#19
SK SlovakiaJÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census)1995654—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202616—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202416#43,070
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—16#102,080
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202613—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—13#114,877

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Horák mean, and where does it come from?
a male surname meaning “one who comes from the highlands” Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Horák?
A machine transcription gives /ɦoraːk/ (IPA) for Czech.
In which country does Horák have the most bearers?
In Czechia, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Horák, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Horák most common?
Horák is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 880 people carrying it.
How common is the name Horák?
In Czechia, the national register counted 12,161 people named Horák, about 1 in 880 residents.
How common is Horák compared with other names?
In Austria, Horák is the 778th most common surname of 127,275 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, “Horák” — the 778th most common surname in Austria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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