Jilek
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a pet form of Jilji, a vernacular form of Latin Aegidius (see Giles) (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/jɪlɛk/(machine-generated) Czech · model-generated
Jilek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country: 2,996 people, counted by MVČR.
- CZCzechia1 in 3.6K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 181K
- USUnited States1 in 372K
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.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 62 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)
2,996 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Jílek in SK Slovakia.
How to pronounce Jilek
- Czech:/jɪlɛk/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from a pet form of Jilji, a vernacular form of Latin Aegidius (see Giles).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Jilek is found
(measured from records)Jilek 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | 2,996 | 1 in 3.6K | 3K | Jilek | 49 |
| US United States | 895 | 1 in 372K | 923 | Jilek | 62 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 801K | — | Jilek | 12 |
| CA Canada | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 522K | — | Jilek | 8 |
| SK Slovakia | 30 | 1 in 181K | 30 | Jílek | 7 |
| PY Paraguay | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 526K | — | Jilek | 5 |
2,996 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017, counting the spelling jílek. 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; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- August von Jilekb. 1819CZAustro-Hungarian Navy Admiral and physician (1819-1898)
- Heinrich Jilekb. 1902CZborn:1902-08-21|died:1986-04-27|; Jilek, Heinrich
- August Jilekb. 1949DEGerman lecturer, theologian and priest
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jilek mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet form of Jilji, a vernacular form of Latin Aegidius (see Giles). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Jilek?
- In Czech /jɪlɛk/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Jilek?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 3.0 thousand people named Jilek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jilek. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Slovakia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Jilek most common?
- Jilek is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.6 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Jilek?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 2,996 people named Jilek, about 1 in 3.6 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jilekThe 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, “Jilek” — ranked 344th in Czechia (naše jména). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.