Pánek
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
/ˈpaːnɛk/(recorded in a dictionary) Czech · from Wiktionary
Pánek is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Poland. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Polish Panek and Czech Pánek.
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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 Pánek
- Czech:/ˈpaːnɛk/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Polish Panek and Czech Pánek.
Cited for this meaning 3
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Pánek counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | — | 6.2K | — |
| US United States | — | 3K | — |
| CZ Czechia | — | 2.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 341 | — |
| NO Norway | — | 104 | — |
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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)- Šimon Pánekb. 1967CZCzech politician
- Zbyněk Pánekb. 1972CZCzech Olympic athlete and Nordic combined skier
- Taťána Makarenkob. 1989UAnot in their usual nameCzech model
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pánek mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Polish Panek and Czech Pánek. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and 1 other source.
- How do you pronounce Pánek?
- In Czech /ˈpaːnɛk/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Pánek have the most bearers?
- Pánek is most frequently recorded in Poland.
What do you want to know about Pánek?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/p%C3%A1nekThe 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, “Pánek” — ranked 291st in Poland (dane.gov.pl). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.