Ěķ
surname · Latin script
Ěķ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country: 9,441 people, counted by Skatteverket, which ranks it 81st. Recorded meaning: From Old Norse eik, from Proto-Germanic *aiks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyǵ- (“oak”).
- SESweden1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 2K
- NONorway1 in 4.4K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 26 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
9,441 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ek in SE Sweden, FI Finland, US United States 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)- Old Norseeik(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*aiks(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂eyǵ-“oak”(measured from records)
From Old Norse eik, from Proto-Germanic *aiks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyǵ- (“oak”).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Ěķ is found
(measured from records)Ěķ 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | 9,441 | 1 in 1.1K | 9.4K | Ek | 11 |
| FI Finland | 2,777 | 1 in 2K | 2.8K | Ek | 4 |
| US United States | 1,882 | 1 in 177K | 1.9K | Ek | 10 |
| NO Norway | 1,246 | 1 in 4.4K | 1.2K | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 87 | 1 in 199K | 87 | Ek | 4 |
| DK Denmark | 40 | 1 in 147K | 40 | — | — |
9,441 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ěķ mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Norse eik, from Proto-Germanic *aiks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyǵ- (“oak”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ěķ?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 9.4 thousand people named Ěķ, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ek. After it come Finland, United States, Norway and Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Ěķ most common?
- Ěķ is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ěķ?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 9,441 people named Ěķ, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C4%9B%C4%B7The 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, “Ěķ” — ranked 81st in Sweden (Skatteverket). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.