Martínek
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈmarciːnɛk/(recorded in a dictionary) Czech · from Wiktionary
Martínek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country: 2,935 people, counted by MVČR. Recorded meaning: Czech (Martmek), Slovak, Croatian (northern and western Croatia), and Slovenian; from a pet form of the personal name Martin.
- CZCzechia1 in 3.6K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 29K
- SISlovenia1 in 96K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 79 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)
2,935 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 Martinek in CZ Czechia, US United States, PL Poland and 3 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.
How to pronounce Martínek
- Czech:/ˈmarciːnɛk/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Slovak:/marʲiɲek/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Czech (Martmek), Slovak, Croatian (northern and western Croatia), and Slovenian; from a pet form of the personal name Martin.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Martínek is found
(measured from records)Martínek 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 | #132 | 2,935 | 1 in 3.6K | 2.9K | Martinek | 79 |
| US United States | — | 1,800 | 1 in 185K | 1.8K | Martinek | 77 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 232K | — | Martinek | 10 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 435K | — | Martinek | 11 |
| PL Poland | — | 147 | 1 in 260K | 75 | Martinek | 23 |
| HR Croatia | — | 146 | 1 in 29K | 146 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | — | 22 | 1 in 96K | 22 | — | 2 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 149K | — | Martinek | 3 |
2,935 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017, counting the spelling martínek. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)- Zdeněk Martínekb. 1923CZCzech actor
- František Martínekb. 1952CZCzech astronomer
- Radko Martínekb. 1956CZCzech teacher and politician
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 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Martínek mean, and where does it come from?
- Czech (Martmek), Slovak, Croatian (northern and western Croatia), and Slovenian; from a pet form of the personal name Martin. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Martínek?
- It depends on the language: in Czech /ˈmarciːnɛk/ (Wiktionary); in Slovak /marʲiɲek/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Martínek?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 2.9 thousand people named Martínek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled martinek. After it come United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Martínek most common?
- Martínek is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.6 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Martínek?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 2,935 people named Martínek, about 1 in 3.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Martínek compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Martínek is the 132nd most common surname of 114,573 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Martínek?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mart%C3%ADnekThe 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, “Martínek” — ranked 353rd in Czechia (MVČR). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.