Horak

surname · Latin script

Meaning: topographic name for someone who lived in the mountains, from a noun derivative of hora ‘mountain’

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

/ˈhɔɹək/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Horak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country, where it is the 80th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 880(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 113K
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 40Kas Горак

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Horak itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Czechia (measured from records)

12,161 people

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
101 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 880 (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

HorakLatin(measured from records)
ГоракCyrillic(measured from records)
โฮราคThai(measured from records)

Locally spelled Горак in UA Ukraine.

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)

topographic name for someone who lived in the mountains, from a noun derivative of hora ‘mountain’.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Horak 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 Horak is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia#8012,1611 in 88012KHorak101
US United States—2,9471 in 113K2.9KHorak77
ZA South Africa—≈1,300 est.≈1 in 45K—Horak6
UA Ukraine—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 40K—Горак29
PL Poland—6631 in 58K358Horak35
SK Slovakia—6541 in 8.3K654Horak42
HR Croatia—3381 in 13K338——

12,161 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017, counting the spelling horák. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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)

Horak is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname9 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Horák, Hõrak, Hořák

  • Croatian surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Serbia, South Africa

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Serbian

    Also written Horák, Horâk

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Hořák, Horák, Hôrak, Hõrak

  • Danish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Denmark, Sweden

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

    Also written Horák

  • Korean given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Korea, United States

    Also written 호락, Hõrak, Horák

  • Estonian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Estonia, United States, Netherlands

    Languages: Estonian, Finnish

    Also written Hõrak, Hörak, Horák

34 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)

Horak is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, Fremdname: sorb. horok 'Bergmann', tschech. horák 'Gebirgsbewohner'; Herkunftsname zu tschech. Hora oder Patronym zu Rufnamen wie Hore[slav]. kh-Schreibung in Stuttgart. Bearer count: 639+64.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus

  • In adl, Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

1920194019601980Stanisław Horak, b. 1925Olga Horak, b. 1926Walter Horak, b. 1931Egon Horak, b. 1937Michael Horak, b. 1940Roman Horak, b. 1942Marina Horak, b. 1944Gregor Horak, b. 1964Olivier Horak, b. 1965Jakub Horak, b. 1974

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)

FormalDear Horak,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 28 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Horak
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.9K#10,809
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002.7K#10,748
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.6K#11,712
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026358—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—358#9,255
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021338#2,308
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026305—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—305#10,681
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)2021283—
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—11#78,031
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—11#17,814
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 6

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 Horak mean, and where does it come from?
topographic name for someone who lived in the mountains, from a noun derivative of hora ‘mountain’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Horak?
A machine transcription gives /ˈhɔɹək/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Horak have the most bearers?
In Czechia, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Horak, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled horak.
Where is Horak most common?
Horak is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 880 people carrying it.
How common is the name Horak?
In Czechia, the national register counted 12,161 people named Horak, about 1 in 880 residents.
How common is Horak compared with other names?
In Czechia, Horak is the 80th most common surname of 114,573 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, “Horak” — the 80th most common surname in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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