Koubek
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a pet form of the personal name Jakub, Czech form of Jacob
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kaʊbɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Koubek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 7K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 85K
- USUnited States1 in 1M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Koubek itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.0K (inferred from the name graph)
1,525 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Коубек in UA Ukraine.
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)
from a pet form of the personal name Jakub, Czech form of Jacob.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Koubek 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 | 1,525 | 1 in 7K | 1.5K | — | — |
| US United States | 328 | 1 in 1M | 346 | Koubek | 5 |
| SK Slovakia | 64 | 1 in 85K | 64 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 9 | 1 in 4.3M | 5 | — | — |
| UA Ukraine | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 5.7M | — | Коубек | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | 8 | 1 in 1.1M | 8 | — | — |
1,525 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; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
- Jan Pravoslav Koubekb. 1805CZCzech poet and educator
- Fritz Koubekb. 1902ATAustrian politician
- Zdeněk Koubekb. 1913CZtransgender Czech athlete (1913-1986)
- Vlastimil Koubekb. 1927USAmerican architect (1927–2003)
- Miroslav Koubekb. 1951CZCzech association football player and coach
- Václav Koubekb. 1955CZCzech humorist and singer
- František Koubekb. 1969CZCzech soccer player
- Greg Koubekb. 1969USAmerican basketball player
- Stefan Koubekb. 1977ATAustrian tennis player
- Tomáš Koubekb. 1992CZCzech association football 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)
Attested in 15 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 1.5K | #821 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1.5K | #826 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 346 | #62,494 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 328 | #61,297 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 310 | #60,706 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 64 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 8 | #72,019 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #201,428 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #226,482 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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
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 Koubek mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet form of the personal name Jakub, Czech form of Jacob. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Koubek?
- A machine transcription gives /kaʊbɪk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Koubek have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Koubek, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Koubek most common?
- Koubek is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Koubek?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 1,525 people named Koubek, about 1 in 7.0 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/koubekThe 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, “Koubek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.