Drabek

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 5.3K(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 25K
  • SKSlovakia1 in 40K

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)

2,020 people

Sources
55 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 5.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Borrowed from Czech Drábek or Polish Drabek.

Sources 1

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Drabek 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 Drabek is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia2,0201 in 5.3K2KDrabek44
PL Poland1,5561 in 25K783Drabek55
US United States9611 in 346K961Drabek35
SK Slovakia1351 in 40K135Drabek10
BR Brazil≈120 est.≈1 in 1.8M—Drabek12
PT Portugal≈38 est.≈1 in 270K—Drabek1
HR Croatia151 in 282K15——

2,020 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017, counting the spelling drábek. 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)

Drabek is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Drábek

  • Croatian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Croatia

    Also written Drábek

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Drábek

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Drábek

  • Norwegian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish

    Also written Drábek

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Drábek

  • Arabic surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Drábek

26 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)

18001850190019502000Károly Drabek, b. 1808Otto Drabek, b. 1894Kurt Drabek, b. 1912Doug Drabek, b. 1962Dietmar Drabek, b. 1965Tomasz Drabek, b. 1973Katja Drabek, b. 1977Kyle Drabek, b. 1987

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 15 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Drabek
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010961#25,659
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020943#27,133
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000895#25,825
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026783—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—783#4,053
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026773—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—773#4,015
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202115#26,485
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202112—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

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 Drabek mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Czech Drábek or Polish Drabek. Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Drabek have the most bearers?
In Czechia, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Drabek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled drabek.
Where is Drabek most common?
Drabek is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.3 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Drabek?
In Czechia, the national register counted 2,020 people named Drabek, about 1 in 5.3 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, “Drabek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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