Krizek
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a pet form of the personal name Kriz (see Kriz)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/krɪzɛk/(machine-generated) Czech · model-generated
Krizek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 5.6K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 51K
- SKSlovakia1 in 188K
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)
- Record sources
- 44 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.6K (inferred from the name graph)
1,926 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)Locally spelled Křížek in CZ Czechia and Križek 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)from a pet form of the personal name Kriz (see Kriz).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Krizek 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 | #581 | 1,926 | 1 in 5.6K | 1.9K | Křížek | 44 |
| US United States | — | 465 | 1 in 715K | 471 | Krizek | 39 |
| HR Croatia | — | 83 | 1 in 51K | 83 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Krizek | 12 |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 6.6M | — | Krizek | 10 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 29 | 1 in 188K | 29 | Križek | 9 |
1,926 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; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jan Krizekb. 1919CZCzech painter and sculptor (1919-1985)
- Paul Krizekb. 1961USAmerican politician
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 471 | #43,232 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 465 | #45,886 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 425 | #52,687 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #191,357 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 2 | #23,742 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Krizek mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet form of the personal name Kriz (see Kriz). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Krizek?
- In Czech /krɪzɛk/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Krizek have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Krizek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled křížek.
- Where is Krizek most common?
- Krizek is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.6 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Krizek?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 1,926 people named Krizek, about 1 in 5.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Krizek compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Krizek is the 581st most common surname of 114,573 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Krizek?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/krizekThe 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, “Krizek” — the 581st most common surname in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.