Kocourek
surname · Latin script
Meaning: nickname for a promiscuous man, from a diminutive of kocour ‘tom cat’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kəˈkʊɹɛk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kocourek is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- CZCzechia
- DEGermany
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
nickname for a promiscuous man, from a diminutive of kocour ‘tom cat’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kocourek 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 Czech, diminutive of kocour
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)
- Josef Kocourekb. 1909CZCzech educator and writer (1909–1933)
- Jan Kocourekb. 1926CZCzechoslovak member of Czechoslovak parliament, Czechoslovak politician and biochemist
- Estanislao Kocourekb. 1930ARArgentinian hurdler
- Dave Kocourekb. 1937USAmerican football player and announcer (1937-2013)
- Břetislav Kocourekb. 1944CZCzechoslovak ice hockey player
- Franta Kocourekb. 1947CZCzech actor (1947-1991)
- Pavel Kocourekb. 1948CZCzech myriapodologist
- Michal Kocourekb. 1965CZCzech film producer
- Martin Kocourekb. 1966CZCzech politician
- Martin Kocourekb. 1976CZCzech sculptor
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 18 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2.3K | #492 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 2.3K | #490 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 2.3K | #490 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 486 | #44,270 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 472 | #48,348 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 466 | #43,629 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 39 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 25 | #168,311 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 21 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #225,750 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- 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
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
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 Kocourek mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname for a promiscuous man, from a diminutive of kocour ‘tom cat’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kocourek?
- A machine transcription gives /kəˈkʊɹɛk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kocourek have the most bearers?
- Kocourek is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kocourekThe 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
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kocourek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.