Mikeš
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
/ˈmɪkɛʃ/(recorded in a dictionary) Czech · from Wiktionary
Mikeš is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from a pet form of a personal name equivalent to Nicholas (Hungarian Miklos, Czech Mikulds).
- HRCroatia1 in 141K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 210K
- USUnited States1 in 357K
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
- 55 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.5K (inferred from the name graph)
2,377 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from a pet form of a personal name equivalent to Nicholas (Hungarian Miklos, Czech Mikulds).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mikeš 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 | 2,377 | 1 in 4.5K | 2.4K | Mikeš | 55 |
| US United States | 933 | 1 in 357K | 1K | — | 20 |
| SK Slovakia | 134 | 1 in 41K | 134 | Mikeš | 16 |
| CH Switzerland | 40 | 1 in 210K | 40 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | 30 | 1 in 141K | 30 | — | — |
2,377 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 2020; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)- Adolf Mikešb. 1864CZCzechoslovak musician (1864–1929)
- Záboj Bláha-Mikešb. 1887CZCzech music publicist, composer and pianist
- Otakar Mikešb. 1921chemist, biochemist, minister
- Vladimír Mikešb. 1927CZCzech poet, writer
- František Mikešb. 1939ILresearcher
- Petr Mikešb. 1948CZCzech poet and translator
- Pavel Mikešb. 1950CZCzechoslovak handball player
- Ctirad Mikešb. 1956CZCzech local politician and mayor
- Zdeněk Mikešb. 1962CZphotographer
- Erik Mikešb. 1997SKassociation 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 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 2.4K | #462 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 2.4K | #462 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2.4K | #463 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 134 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 30 | #18,548 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 23 | — |
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 Mikeš mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet form of a personal name equivalent to Nicholas (Hungarian Miklos, Czech Mikulds). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Mikeš?
- It depends on the language: in Czech /ˈmɪkɛʃ/ (Wiktionary); in Slovak /ˈmikeʃ/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Mikeš have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Mikeš, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mikeš.
- Where is Mikeš most common?
- Mikeš is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.5 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mikeš?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 2,377 people named Mikeš, about 1 in 4.5 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mike%C5%A1The 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, “Mikeš”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.