Boček

surname · Latin script

Boček is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Czech Boček.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 5.8K(measured from records)
  • SISlovenia1 in 42K
  • HRCroatia1 in 96K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Czechia (measured from records)

1,837 people

Sources
17 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 5.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Bocek 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.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Borrowed from Czech Boček.

Sources 1

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Boček 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.

Where Boček is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia1,8371 in 5.8K1.8K——
US United States5641 in 590K564Bocek5
PL Poland3411 in 112K172——
AR Argentina1031 in 442K103——
SI Slovenia501 in 42K50Boček3
HR Croatia441 in 96K44Boček17
SK Slovakia381 in 143K38——

1,837 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); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Boček is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Bocek, Böcek

  • Czech surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, United States, Poland, Slovakia

    Languages: Czech, Polish, Turkish

    Also written Bocek, Böcek

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Canada, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Bocek, Böcek

  • Spanish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Brazil, Paraguay

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Bocek, Böcek

  • Russian surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, China

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Polish

    Also written Бочек, Bochek, Bocek, Böcek, Бочёк

  • Hindi surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Bocek, Böcek

9 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Antonín Boček, b. 1802Bohumil Boček, b. 1894Vítězslav Boček, b. 1901Emil Boček, b. 1923Jaroslav Boček, b. 1932Pavel Boček, b. 1955Radovan Boček, b. 1963Evžen Boček, b. 1966Martina Boček, b. 1987Zdislava Bočková, b. 1991

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Boček
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—1.8K#667
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—1.8K#667
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—1.8K#667
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—50#7,667
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202144#14,506
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202139—
SK SlovakiaJÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census)199538—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20266—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—6#175,254

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname 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 Boček mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Czech Boček. Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Boček have the most bearers?
In Czechia, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Boček, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Boček most common?
Boček is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.8 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Boček?
In Czechia, the national register counted 1,837 people named Boček, about 1 in 5.8 thousand residents.

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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, “Boček”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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