Havelka
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a pet form of the personal name Havel
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/həˈvɛɫkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Havelka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 3K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 49K
- HRCroatia1 in 63K
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 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 82 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
3,546 people
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a pet form of the personal name Havel.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Havelka 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 | #173 | 3,546 | 1 in 3K | 3.6K | Havelka | 82 |
| US United States | — | 830 | 1 in 401K | 846 | Havelka | 63 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 111 | 1 in 49K | 111 | Havelka | 22 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 446K | — | Havelka | 10 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 812K | — | Havelka | 13 |
| HR Croatia | — | 67 | 1 in 63K | 67 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 34 | 1 in 247K | 34 | — | 2 |
3,546 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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 2020; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
- Jan Havelkab. 1839CZCzech ethnographer, publicist, educator and writer (1839-1886)
- Roman Havelkab. 1877CZCzech painter (1877-1950)
- Jiří Havelkab. 1892CZCzech politician and lawyer, minister without portfolio of the Second Czechoslovak Republic and Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, minister of transport of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
- František Havelkab. 1908ATCzech boxer
- Svatopluk Havelkab. 1925CZCzech music educator and composer
- Ondřej Havelkab. 1954CZCzech actor, jazz musician, director and singer
- Monica Havelkab. 1956USAmerican rower (1956–2009)
- Martin Havelkab. 1958CZCzech actor (1958–2020)
- Jiří Havelkab. 1980CZCzech actor
- Josef Havelkab. 1999CZchess player
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)
Attested in 22 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 3.6K | #255 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 3.6K | #255 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 3.5K | #258 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 846 | #29,704 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 830 | #28,704 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 809 | #27,924 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 111 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 67 | #10,766 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 54 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 34 | #24,910 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
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 Havelka mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet form of the personal name Havel. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Havelka?
- A machine transcription gives /həˈvɛɫkə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Havelka have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 3.5 thousand people named Havelka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled havelka.
- Where is Havelka most common?
- Havelka is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Havelka?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 3,546 people named Havelka, about 1 in 3.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Havelka compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Havelka is the 173rd 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/havelkaThe 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, “Havelka” — the 173rd most common surname in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.