Hayek

surname · Latin script

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

Hayek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Syria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Altered spelling of Czech Hajek, a topographic name for someone living by a copse or small wood, hajek.

rarermore common
  • LBLebanon≈1 in 4.4K(inferred from the name graph)
  • SYSyria≈1 in 6.9K
  • USUnited States1 in 186K

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.

Syria (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,800 people, est.

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
257 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Lebanon, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

HayekLatin(measured from records)
ฮาเยคThai(measured from records)
ΧαγιεκGreek(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)

Altered spelling of Czech Hajek, a topographic name for someone living by a copse or small wood, hajek.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hayek 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 Hayek is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SY Syria#596≈2,800 est.≈1 in 6.9K—Hayek18
US United States—1,7881 in 186K1.8KHayek257
LB Lebanon#317≈1,200 est.≈1 in 4.4K—Hayek56
JO Jordan—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 9.8K—Hayek28
SA Saudi Arabia—≈1,000 est.≈1 in 33K—Hayek30
IL Israel—≈390 est.≈1 in 22K—Hayek19
CY Cyprus—≈83 est.≈1 in 15K—Hayek5

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. 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)

Hayek is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Venezuela, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Hayèk, Háyek, Hâýêķ

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Lebanon, Canada

    Also written Háyek

  • Hindi surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Switzerland

    Also written Ĥayeķ

  • Hebrew surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, United States, Tunisia, Canada

    Also written האייק, Ḥayeḳ

38 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Hayek is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, British political economist (Nobel

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, Friedrich A. von, Austrian-born

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In Croatian, austrijski ekonomist ( Cijene i proizvodnja , Čista teorija kapitala ), Nobelova nagrada 1974 (s G. Myrdalom)

    as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export

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)

1850190019502000Hans von Hayek, b. 1869August von Hayek, b. 1871Friedrich Hayek, b. 1899Ignatius Antony II Hayyek, b. 1910Nicolas Hayek, b. 1928Samuel Hayek, b. 1953Nick Hayek, b. 1954Julie Hayek, b. 1960Salma Hayek, b. 1966Rita Hayek, 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 24 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Hayek
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.8K#15,307
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.8K#16,166
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.6K#16,635
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

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 Hayek mean, and where does it come from?
Altered spelling of Czech Hajek, a topographic name for someone living by a copse or small wood, hajek. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Hayek have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.8 thousand people named Hayek in Syria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hayek.
How common is the name Hayek?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,788 people named Hayek in 2010, about 1 in 186 thousand residents.
How common is Hayek compared with other names?
In Syria, Hayek is the 596th most common surname of 190,062 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Hayek” — the 596th most common surname in Syria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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