Hanek
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from (Jo)hdnek, Czech pet form of the German personal name Johann
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/hænɛk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hanek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 42K
- JOJordan≈1 in 53K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 119 (measured from records)
- 1 in 42K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
from (Jo)hdnek, Czech pet form of the German personal name Johann.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hanek 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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)
Hanek 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 German, Patronymischer Familienname zu Kurzform Hahn/Hann von Johannes, mit slaw. oder nd. Diminutivsuffix -k(e)(n); 112 Tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
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)
- János Hanekb. 1937HUassociation football player
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 16 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 301 | #70,147 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 282 | #65,668 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 268 | #72,568 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 257 | #6,516 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 257 | #4,881 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 128 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 128 | #24,508 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 124 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 124 | #24,750 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 61 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
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 Hanek mean, and where does it come from?
- from (Jo)hdnek, Czech pet form of the German personal name Johann. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hanek?
- A machine transcription gives /hænɛk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hanek have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.2 thousand people named Hanek in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hanek.
- Where is Hanek most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hanek is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 42 thousand people — even though Pakistan holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hanek?
- In the United States, the national register counted 268 people named Hanek in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Hanek?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hanekThe 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, “Hanek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.