Simek
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Simek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Czechia it is the 72nd most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Czech Šimek.
- CZCzechia1 in 1.6K(measured from records)
- THThailand≈1 in 23Kas ศรีเมฆ
- SKSlovakia1 in 5.1K
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 Simek itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 78 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,400 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
12 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Šimek in CZ Czechia, SK Slovakia, RS Serbia and ศรีเมฆ in TH Thailand.
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)
Borrowed from Czech Šimek.
Sources 1
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Simek 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 166K | — | Simek | 5 |
| CZ Czechia | #72 | 6,786 | 1 in 1.6K | 6.8K | Šimek | 78 |
| TH Thailand | #687 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 23K | #637,855 | ศรีเมฆ | 66 |
| US United States | — | 1,371 | 1 in 243K | 1.5K | Simek | 72 |
| SK Slovakia | #640 | 1,065 | 1 in 5.1K | 1.1K | Šimek | 28 |
| HR Croatia | — | 811 | 1 in 5.2K | 811 | — | — |
| RS Serbia | — | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 130K | — | Šimek | 4 |
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; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; 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)
Simek 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 trk-pro, forest, jungle
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In cce, transplant
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In trk-pro, лес, чаща
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
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)
- Artie Simekb. 1916letterer
- Rudolf Simekb. 1954ATAustrian philologist and Germanist
- Péter Simekb. 1980HUHungarian association football player
- Frank Simekb. 1984USassociation football player
- Marie-Christine Simekb. 1992FRphotographer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.5K | #17,791 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,654 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,545 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 27 | #44,006 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 26 | #14,004 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
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 Simek mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Czech Šimek. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Simek have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.4 thousand people named Simek in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled simek.
- Where is Simek most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Simek is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 1.6 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Simek?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 6,786 people named Simek, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Simek compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Simek is the 72nd most common surname of 114,573 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/simekThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Simek” — the 72nd most common surname in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.