Cenek

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/sɛnɛk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Cenek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 3.5K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland≈1 in 1.9M
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 14M

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)

3,094 people

Sources
39 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 3.5K (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 Čeněk in CZ Czechia, GB United Kingdom.

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 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Cenek 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 Cenek is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia3,0941 in 3.5K3.1KČeněk39
US United States≈13 est.≈1 in 25MlistedCenek20
GB United Kingdom≈5 est.≈1 in 14M—Čeněk12
CH Switzerland≈4 est.≈1 in 1.9M5—1
PL Poland21 in 19M2——

3,094 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; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names). 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)

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

  • English surname10 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Čeněk, Çenek, Čenêǩ, Čenek

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Čeněk

  • Croatian name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Čeněk

  • Polish name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Čeněk

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Cének, Čeněk

  • Turkish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Çenek, Čeněk

11 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Cenek is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Czech: pet form of Vincenc (see VINCENT ).

    as a word

  • In map-pro, thorn

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18501900195020002050Emil Cenek, b. 1887Severin Cenek, b. 1891Tomáš Cenek, b. 2007

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)

FormalDear Mr Cenek,
InformalHi Cenek,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Cenek
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—260#4,850
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—259#6,464
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20245#101,952
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

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 Cenek?
A machine transcription gives /sɛnɛk/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Cenek have the most bearers?
In Czechia, the national register counted about 3.1 thousand people named Cenek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled čeněk.
Where is Cenek most common?
Cenek is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.5 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Cenek?
In Czechia, the national register counted 3,094 people named Cenek, about 1 in 3.5 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/cenek

The 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, “Cenek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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