Karnek

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

Karnek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 3.6M(measured from records)
  • USUnited States≈1 in 135M

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)

3 people

Record sources
16 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 3.6M (inferred from the name graph)

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Karnek 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 Karnek is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia31 in 3.6M3——
US United States≈2 est.≈1 in 135M—Karnek16

3 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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. 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)

Karnek is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Slovak surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Kärnek

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Kärnek

7 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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Karnek
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—3#157,802

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Karnek have the most bearers?
In Czechia, the national register counted about 3 people named Karnek, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Karnek most common?
Karnek is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.6 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Karnek?
In Czechia, the national register counted 3 people named Karnek, about 1 in 3.6 million residents.

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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, “Karnek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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