Paleček
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
/ˈpalɛt͡ʃɛk/(recorded in a dictionary) Czech · from Wiktionary
Paleček is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country: 950 people, counted by MVČR. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Czech Paleček.
- CZCzechia1 in 11K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 67K
- HRCroatia1 in 101K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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
- 14 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
950 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 Palecek in US United States.
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 Paleček
- Czech:/ˈpalɛt͡ʃɛk/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Slovak:/paleʃek/(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)Borrowed from Czech Paleček.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Paleček is found
(measured from records)Paleček 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 | 950 | 1 in 11K | 950 | — | — |
| US United States | 601 | 1 in 553K | 601 | Palecek | 12 |
| SK Slovakia | 81 | 1 in 67K | 81 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | 42 | 1 in 101K | 42 | Paleček | 14 |
| CH Switzerland | 8 | 1 in 1.1M | 8 | — | — |
950 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); 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)- Josef Palečekb. 1932CZartist (*1932)
- Josef Palečekb. 1949CZCzechoslovak ice hockey player
- Jan Palecekb. 1966CZresearcher
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)6 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 Paleček mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Czech Paleček. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Paleček?
- It depends on the language: in Czech /ˈpalɛt͡ʃɛk/ (Wiktionary); in Slovak /paleʃek/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Paleček?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 950 people named Paleček, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Slovakia, Croatia and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Paleček most common?
- Paleček is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Paleček?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 950 people named Paleček, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Paleček?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pale%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, “Paleček” — ranked 1426th in Czechia (MVČR). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.