Wilczek
surname · Latin script
Meaning: diminutive of wilk; young wolf
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈvɪɫtʃɛk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wilczek is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- PLPoland
- DEGermany
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
diminutive of wilk; young wolf
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
- Count Johann Nepomuk Wilczekb. 1837ATAustrian explorer (1837-1922)
- Johann Nepomuk Maria Wilczekb. 1861ATnoble (1861-1929)
- Ernest Wilczekb. 1867CHSwiss botanist (1867-1948)
- Count Ferdinand von Wilczekb. 1893ATAustrian Noble
- Rudolf Wilczekb. 1903BEBelgian botanist (1903-1984)
- Georgina von Wilczekb. 1921ATPrincess consort of Liechtenstein
- Erwin Wilczekb. 1940PLPolish association football player and manager
- Frank Wilczekb. 1951USAmerican theoretical physicist
- Piotr Wilczekb. 1962PLPolish historian, literary translator and diplomat
- Kamil Wilczekb. 1988PLPolish footballer
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)
Attested in 28 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4.5K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4.5K | #451 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4.4K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4.4K | #458 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 839 | #29,905 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 838 | #28,465 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 757 | #29,421 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 136 | #2,461 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 136 | #6,729 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 134 | #12,723 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 61 | #44,978 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 52 | #12,295 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Wilczek mean, and where does it come from?
- diminutive of wilk; young wolf Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Wilczek?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈvɪɫtʃɛk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Wilczek have the most bearers?
- Wilczek is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wilczekThe 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, “Wilczek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.