Zdeněk
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/zdɛɲɛk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zdeněk is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country, where it is the 43rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: Originally a diminutive of Zdeslav.
- CZCzechia≈1 in 257(inferred from the name graph)
- SKSlovakia≈1 in 118K
- ISIceland1 in 58K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Czechia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 72 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 257 (inferred from the name graph)
≈42,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Czechia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Originally a diminutive of Zdeslav.
Sources 1
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zdeněk 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 | #43 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 257 | 126K | Zdeněk | 72 |
| US United States | — | 339 | 1 in 981K | 338 | Zdeněk | 13 |
| PL Poland | — | 75 | 1 in 510K | 75 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 51 | 1 in 200K | 51 | — | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | 17 | Zdeněk | 12 |
| SK Slovakia | #269 | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 118K | 5 | Zdeněk | 19 |
| DK Denmark | — | 15 | 1 in 391K | 15 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | 6 | 1 in 58K | 6 | — | — |
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: naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
- Zdeněk Fibichb. 1850CZCzech conductor, music educator, composer and choirmaster (1850-1900)
- Zdeněk Nejedlýb. 1878CZCzech musicologist, writer and politician (1878–1962)
- Zdeněk Koubekb. 1913CZtransgender Czech athlete (1913-1986)
- Zdenek Milerb. 1921CZCzech animator and illustrator (1921–2011)
- Zdeněk Mahlerb. 1928CZCzech musicologist, scriptwriter and writer (1928-2018)
- Zdeněk Svěrákb. 1936CZCzech actor
- Zdeněk Zemanb. 1947CZCzech soccer coach (born 1947)
- Zdeněk Nehodab. 1952CZCzech footballer
- Zdeněk Grygerab. 1980CZCzech footballer
- Zdeněk Hřibb. 1981CZCzech manager and politician
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 126K | #15 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 126K | #15 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 75 | #2,532 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 69 | #2,486 |
| CZ Czechia | CZSO — 100 nejčetnějších dětských jmen (top 100 baby names 2024) | 2024 | — | #86 |
| CZ Czechia | CZSO — 100 nejčetnějších dětských jmen (top 100 baby names 2024) | 2023 | — | #79 |
| CZ Czechia | CZSO — 100 nejčetnějších dětských jmen (top 100 baby names 2024) | 2022 | — | #76 |
| CZ Czechia | CZSO — 100 nejčetnějších dětských jmen (top 100 baby names 2024) | 2019 | — | #70 |
| CZ Czechia | CZSO — 100 nejčetnějších dětských jmen (top 100 baby names 2024) | 2018 | — | #64 |
| CZ Czechia | CZSO — 100 nejčetnějších dětských jmen (top 100 baby names 2024) | 2017 | — | #62 |
| CZ Czechia | CZSO — 100 nejčetnějších dětských jmen (top 100 baby names 2024) | 2016 | — | #76 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Zdeněk mean, and where does it come from?
- Originally a diminutive of Zdeslav. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Zdeněk?
- A machine transcription gives /zdɛɲɛk/ (IPA) for Czech.
- Is Zdeněk a male or female name?
- Zdeněk is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Zdeněk?
- In the etymology graph, Zdenko and Zdeno are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Zdeněk have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 42 thousand people named Zdeněk in Czechia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zdeněk.
- How common is the name Zdeněk?
- In the United States, the national register counted 339 people named Zdeněk in 2020, about 1 in 981 thousand residents.
- How common is Zdeněk compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Zdeněk is the 43rd most common given name of 16,679 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Zdeněk?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zden%C4%9BkThe 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, “Zdeněk” — the 43rd most common given name in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.