Ružek
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
/ruʒek/(machine-generated) Slovak · model-generated
Ružek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 13K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 60K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 467K
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)
- Record sources
- 30 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
851 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)Locally spelled Ruzek in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and Růžek in CZ Czechia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ružek 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 | 851 | 1 in 13K | 854 | Růžek | 29 |
| US United States | 332 | 1 in 1M | 332 | Ruzek | 30 |
| HR Croatia | 70 | 1 in 60K | 70 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Ruzek | 4 |
| CA Canada | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Ruzek | 6 |
| CH Switzerland | 18 | 1 in 467K | 18 | — | — |
851 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; 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)- Rudolf Ružekb. 1887Holocaust victim (born 1887)
- Karel Ružekb. 1892CZholocaust victim, b. 1892-06-07
- Vilém Ružekb. 1895CZHolocaust victim (born 1895)
- Karel Ružekb. 1904holocaust victim, b. 1904-04-04
- Emil Ružekb. 1906CZHolocaust victim (born 1906)
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 70 | #10,523 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 56 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #193,800 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Ružek?
- In Slovak /ruʒek/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Ružek have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 851 people named Ružek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled růžek.
- Where is Ružek most common?
- Ružek is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 13 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ružek?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 851 people named Ružek, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ru%C5%BEekThe 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, “Ružek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.