Gondek
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Gpdek, a nickname from Old Polish gqdzic ‘to play on an instrument’ (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈɡɔn.dɛk/(recorded in a dictionary) Polish · from Wiktionary
Gondek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country: 3,686 people, counted by dane.gov.pl in 2026.
- 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 71 (measured from records)
- 1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
3,686 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Gondek
- Polish:/ˈɡɔn.dɛk/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)variant of Gpdek, a nickname from Old Polish gqdzic ‘to play on an instrument’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Gondek is found
(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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 3,686 | 1 in 10K | 1.8K | Gondek | 71 |
| US United States | 1,122 | 1 in 296K | 1.1K | Gondek | 67 |
| CZ Czechia | 345 | 1 in 31K | 345 | Gondek | 31 |
| SK Slovakia | 255 | 1 in 21K | 255 | Gondek | 27 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 416K | — | Gondek | 31 |
| NO Norway | 36 | 1 in 152K | 36 | — | 4 |
3,686 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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
- Jyoti Gondekb. 1969CACanadian politician
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)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
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?
- In Polish /ˈɡɔn.dɛk/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Gondek?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 3.7 thousand people named Gondek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gondek. After it come United States, Czechia, Slovakia and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Gondek most common?
- Gondek is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 10 thousand people carrying 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” — ranked 1469th in Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.