Samek
surname · Latin script
Meaning: synonym of tutaj (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/samɛk/(machine-generated) Polish · model-generated
Samek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country: 2,203 people, counted by dane.gov.pl in 2026. Samek is also written Самек in Cyrillic and สาเมฆ in Thai.
- CZCzechia1 in 6.6K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 17K
- PLPoland1 in 17K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Samek itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 69 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.6K (inferred from the name graph)
2,203 people, 2026
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Samek in other scripts: Cyrillic and Thai
(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 Samek
- Polish:/samɛk/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Czech:/ˈsamɛk/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)synonym of tutaj
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where the surname Samek is found
(measured from records)Samek 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.
2,203 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Samek is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In poz-wmp-pro, dense (undergrowth)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In dhv, lightning
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Ebreju alfabēta 15. burts
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jiří Samekb. 1931CZCzech dubbing actor, actor and local politician (1931-2009)
- Emanuele Samek Lodovicib. 1942ITItalian philosopher (1942-1981)
- Josef Samekb. 1957CZski jumper
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)31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Samek mean, and where does it come from?
- synonym of tutaj Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Samek?
- It depends on the language: in Polish /samɛk/; in Czech /ˈsamɛk/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Samek?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 2.2 thousand people named Samek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled samek. After it come Czechia, United States, Slovenia and Slovakia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Samek most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Samek is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 6.6 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Samek?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2,203 people named Samek in 2026, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
- How common is Samek compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Samek is the 814th most common surname of 114,573 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Samek?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/samekThe 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, “Samek” — ranked 2745th in Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.