Matoušek
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
/ˈmatou̯ʃɛk/(recorded in a dictionary) Czech · from Wiktionary
Matoušek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Matouš (“Matthew”).
- CZCzechia1 in 1.9K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 44K
- HRCroatia1 in 106K
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
- 110 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
5,595 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 Matousek in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CH Switzerland 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)- LatinMatthaeus(inferred from the name graph)via Matouš
- Ancient GreekΜατθαῖοςMatthaîos(inferred from the name graph)via Matouš
- Hebrewמַתִּתְיָהוּmattiṯyāhū“gift of the Lord”(inferred from the name graph)via Matouš
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
From Matouš (“Matthew”).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Matoušek 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 | #144 | 5,595 | 1 in 1.9K | 5.6K | Matoušek | 74 |
| US United States | — | 874 | 1 in 381K | 889 | Matousek | 110 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 125 | 1 in 44K | 125 | Matoušek | 9 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 638K | — | Matousek | 26 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 459K | — | Matousek | 13 |
| HR Croatia | — | 40 | 1 in 106K | 40 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 37 | 1 in 227K | 37 | Matousek | 13 |
| NO Norway | — | 16 | 1 in 342K | 16 | — | 1 |
5,595 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 2000; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)- Otto Matoušekb. 1890CZCzech artist (1890-1977)
- Josef Matoušekb. 1906CZCzech historian, executed by the Nazis (1906-1939)
- Jan Matoušekb. 1915Czech rower
- Karel Matoušekb. 1928CZCzech wrestler (1928–2018)
- Lukáš Matoušekb. 1943CZCzech composer and clarinettist
- Petr Matoušekb. 1949CZCzech cyclist
- Bohuslav Matoušekb. 1949CZCzech violinist, music educator, violist and university educator
- Rene Matoušekb. 1958HRCroatian esperantist, poet and journalist (1958-1991)
- Jiří Matoušekb. 1963CZCzech mathematician (1963-2015)
- Jan Matoušekb. 1998CZCzech association football player (1998-)
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 5.6K | #114 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 5.6K | #114 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 5.6K | #115 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 125 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 40 | #15,496 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 34 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Matoušek mean, and where does it come from?
- From Matouš (“Matthew”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Matoušek?
- In Czech /ˈmatou̯ʃɛk/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Matoušek have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 5.6 thousand people named Matoušek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled matoušek.
- Where is Matoušek most common?
- Matoušek is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Matoušek?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 5,595 people named Matoušek, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Matoušek compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Matoušek is the 144th most common surname of 114,573 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/matou%C5%A1ekThe 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, “Matoušek” — the 144th most common surname in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.