Koutník
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: JÚĽŠ SAV, 1995
Koutník is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: 1. habitational name for someone from a place called Kouty. 2. topographic name for someone who lived on a comer, Czech kout.
- CZCzechia1 in 15K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 1.1M
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M
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
- 29 (measured from records)
- 1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
699 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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 Koutnik in US United States, GB United Kingdom.
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)1. habitational name for someone from a place called Kouty. 2. topographic name for someone who lived on a comer, Czech kout.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Koutník 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 | 699 | 1 in 15K | 700 | Koutník | 29 |
| US United States | 255 | 1 in 1.3M | 257 | Koutnik | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | — | Koutnik | 4 |
| SK Slovakia | 5 | 1 in 1.1M | 5 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 2 |
699 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; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Josef Koutníkb. 1881Czech vet (1881-1939)
- Josef Koutňákb. 1890CZnot in their usual nameCzechoslovak military personnel (1890-1961)
- Tomáš Koutníkb. 1950CZCzech conductor
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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 700 | #2,019 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 699 | #2,080 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 5 | — |
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 Koutník mean, and where does it come from?
- 1. habitational name for someone from a place called Kouty. 2. topographic name for someone who lived on a comer, Czech kout. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Koutník have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 699 people named Koutník, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled koutník.
- Where is Koutník most common?
- Koutník is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 15 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Koutník?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 699 people named Koutník, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Koutník?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/koutn%C3%ADkThe 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, “Koutník”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.