Dědek
surname · Latin script
Meaning: grandfather
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
/ˈɟɛdɛk/(recorded in a dictionary) Czech · from Wiktionary
Dědek is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Czechia.
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)grandfather
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Dědek counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | — | 850 | — |
| US United States | — | 186 | — |
| PL Poland | — | 134 | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 17 | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 17 | — |
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: naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Dědek is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In zlw-ocs, diminutive of děd (“grandfather”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Václav Dědekb. 1846CZteacher at an academy of arts in Prague
- Václav Dědekb. 1857CZCzech director of a sugar refinery (1857-1913)
- Vladimír Dědekb. 1889CZCzechoslovak translator
- Václav Dědekb. 1910CZCzechoslovak politician
- Oldřich Dědekb. 1953CZCzech economist
- Dalibor Dědekb. 1957CZCzech businessman (born 1957)
- Honza Dědekb. 1972CZCzech publicist
- Vlad Blasphemerb. 1974CZnot in their usual nameCzech metal guitarist
- Petr Dědekb. 1974CZCzech entrepreneur
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 850 | #1,341 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 850 | #1,636 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 846 | #1,659 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Dědek mean, and where does it come from?
- grandfather Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Dědek?
- In Czech /ˈɟɛdɛk/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Dědek have the most bearers?
- Dědek is most frequently recorded in Czechia.
What do you want to know about Dědek?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C4%9BdekThe 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, “Dědek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.