Gondek
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Gpdek, a nickname from Old Polish gqdzic ‘to play on an instrument’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɡɑndɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gondek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 10K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 21K
- CZCzechia1 in 31K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 71 (measured from records)
- 1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
variant of Gpdek, a nickname from Old Polish gqdzic ‘to play on an instrument’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gondek 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.
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
- Krystyn Gondekb. 1909PLPolish Catholic priest, Franciscan, martyr, blessed of the Catholic Church (1909–1943)
- Leszek Gondekb. 1939PLPolish historian
- Horst Gondekb. 1943CZProf., Dr.Sc., mechanical engineer, university lecturer, work in the field of machine design and machinery for coal mining
- Paweł Gondekb. 1966PLPolish philosopher
- Jyoti Gondekb. 1969CACanadian politician
- Jowita Gondekb. 1970PLPolish film director and screenwriter
- Krzysztof Gondekb. 1972PLresearcher
- Katarzyna Gondekb. 1982PLPolish writer and filmmaker
- Łukasz GondekPLPolish physicist
- Bartosz GondekPLPolish historian
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)
Attested in 24 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.8K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.8K | #1,469 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.8K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.8K | #1,511 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #23,267 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #22,827 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #22,688 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 345 | #4,711 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 345 | #2,045 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 345 | #3,994 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 255 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 36 | #32,200 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Gondek mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Gpdek, a nickname from Old Polish gqdzic ‘to play on an instrument’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gondek?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɑndɪk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gondek have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.3 thousand people named Gondek in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gondek.
- Where is Gondek most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gondek is densest in Poland — about 1 in 10 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gondek?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3,686 people named Gondek in 2026, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gondekThe 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, “Gondek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.