Palecek
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Palecek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country: 950 people, counted by MVČR. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Czech Paleček.
- CZCzechia1 in 11K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 67K
- HRCroatia1 in 101K
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
- 170 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
950 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)Borrowed from Czech Paleček.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Palecek is found
(measured from records)Palecek 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 | 950 | 1 in 11K | 950 | Palecek | 2 |
| US United States | 601 | 1 in 553K | 601 | Palecek | 170 |
| AT Austria | ≈82 est. | ≈1 in 112K | — | Palecek | 14 |
| SK Slovakia | 81 | 1 in 67K | 81 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 991K | 9 | Palecek | 24 |
| HR Croatia | 42 | 1 in 101K | 42 | — | — |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Palecek | 1 |
950 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017, counting the spelling paleček. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; MVČR — living population register 2017; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); 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)- Josef Palečekb. 1902CZCzechoslovak politician (1902–1965)
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Palecek mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Czech Paleček. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Palecek?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 950 people named Palecek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled palecek. After it come United States, Austria, Slovakia and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Palecek most common?
- Palecek is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Palecek?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 950 people named Palecek, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Palecek?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/palecekThe 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, “Palecek” — ranked 1426th in Czechia (MVČR). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.