Mareček
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a diminutive of the male given name Marek (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: JÚĽŠ SAV, 1995
/ˈmarɛt͡ʃɛk/(recorded in a dictionary) Czech · from Wiktionary
Mareček is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country: 2,074 people, counted by MVČR.
- CZCzechia1 in 5.2K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 11K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.1M
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
- 38 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.2K (inferred from the name graph)
2,074 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Marecek in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada.
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 Mareček
- Czech:/ˈmarɛt͡ʃɛk/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Slovak:/maret͡ʃek/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a diminutive of the male given name Marek
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Mareček is found
(measured from records)Mareček 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 | #629 | 2,074 | 1 in 5.2K | 2.1K | Mareček | 38 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 482 | 1 in 11K | 482 | Mareček | 24 |
| US United States | — | 198 | 1 in 1.7M | 234 | Marecek | 31 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Marecek | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | — | Marecek | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 8 | 1 in 1.1M | 8 | — | — |
2,074 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; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; 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)- Otakar Marečekb. 1943CZCzechoslovak rower (1943-2020)
- Vlastislav Marečekb. 1966CZCzech soccer player and soccer coach (1966-2007)
- Lukáš Marečekb. 1990CZCzech Supercup winner and soccer 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)8 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 Mareček mean, and where does it come from?
- a diminutive of the male given name Marek Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Mareček?
- It depends on the language: in Czech /ˈmarɛt͡ʃɛk/ (Wiktionary); in Slovak /maret͡ʃek/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Mareček?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Mareček, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mareček. After it come Slovakia, United States, Canada and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Mareček most common?
- Mareček is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mareček?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 2,074 people named Mareček, about 1 in 5.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Mareček compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Mareček is the 629th 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/mare%C4%8DekThe 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, “Mareček” — ranked 556th in Czechia (naše jména). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.