Korek
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Korek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: cork.
- PLPoland1 in 54K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 2.7M
- BRBrazil1 in 11M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)
707 people, 2026
Reference-verified
Poland
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(measured from records)
cork
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Korek 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 707 | 1 in 54K | 357 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 20 | 1 in 11M | 20 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 4 | 1 in 2.7M | 4 | Korek | 8 |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | 103 | — | 1 |
707 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Korek is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Indonesian, gouge, chisel (an incising tool)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, cork (bark)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Malay, to dig
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)
- József Korekb. 1920HUHungarian archaeologist
- Wiesław Korekb. 1951PLPolish association football player
- Bettina Korekb. 1978USArts advocate
- Dusty Korekb. 1995CACanadian ski jumper
- Emilia KorekPLresearcher
- Michal Korekresearcher
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 357 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 357 | #9,106 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 350 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 350 | #9,471 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 103 | #147,095 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 20 | #194,891 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 4 | #124,797 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 4 | #22,104 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #174,872 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
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 Korek mean, and where does it come from?
- cork Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Korek have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 707 people named Korek, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Korek most common?
- Korek is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 54 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Korek?
- In Poland, the national register counted 707 people named Korek in 2026, about 1 in 54 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Korek?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/korekThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Korek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.