Komarek
surname · Latin script
Meaning: nickname from a diminutive of komar ‘mosquito’, ‘gnat’ (see Komar)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/komarɛk/(machine-generated) Czech · model-generated
Komarek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 4K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 63K
- PLPoland1 in 106K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 56 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
2,690 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)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Komárek in SK Slovakia.
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)nickname from a diminutive of komar ‘mosquito’, ‘gnat’ (see Komar).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Komarek 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 | 2,690 | 1 in 4K | 2.7K | Komarek | 56 |
| US United States | 553 | 1 in 602K | 562 | Komarek | 34 |
| PL Poland | 360 | 1 in 106K | 185 | Komarek | 19 |
| SK Slovakia | 86 | 1 in 63K | 86 | Komárek | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Komarek | 10 |
| PY Paraguay | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 134K | — | Komarek | 6 |
| CU Cuba | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 311K | — | Komarek | 1 |
2,690 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017, counting the spelling komárek. 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 2000; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Komarek 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 German, from tch. 'little gnat'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)- Dora Komarekb. 1914ATAustrian actor and opera singer (1914-2006)
- Kurt Komarekb. 1926ATAustrian chemist (1926-2016)
- Alfred Komarekb. 1945ATAustrian writer (1945–2024)
- Robert Komarekb. 1966SESwedish short film maker
- Oliver Komarekb. 1986DEGerman basketball player (born 1986)
- Konstantin Komarekb. 1992ATAustrian ice hockey player
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 562 | #37,319 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 553 | #39,717 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 541 | #43,067 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 185 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 185 | #17,404 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 175 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 175 | #18,582 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 3 | #162,542 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 3 | #22,247 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Komarek mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname from a diminutive of komar ‘mosquito’, ‘gnat’ (see Komar). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Komarek?
- In Czech /komarɛk/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Komarek have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Komarek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled komarek.
- Where is Komarek most common?
- Komarek is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Komarek?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 2,690 people named Komarek, about 1 in 4.0 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/komarekThe 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, “Komarek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.