Kvapil
surname · Latin script
Meaning: nickname for a quick, hasty person, from a derivative of the verb kvapit ‘be in a hurry’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kvapəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kvapil is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 4.9K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 64K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 600K
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.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 9 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.9K (inferred from the name graph)
2,186 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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 for a quick, hasty person, from a derivative of the verb kvapit ‘be in a hurry’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kvapil 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 | 2,186 | 1 in 4.9K | 2.2K | — | 1 |
| US United States | 245 | 1 in 1.4M | 252 | Kvapil | 9 |
| SK Slovakia | 85 | 1 in 64K | 85 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 17 | 1 in 2.7M | 17 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 14 | 1 in 600K | 14 | — | — |
2,186 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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)
- František Kvapilb. 1855CZCzech poet and translator (1855-1925)
- Jaroslav Kvapilb. 1868CZCzech politician, poet, theatre director, playwright, librettist and translator (1868-1950)
- Jaroslav Kvapilb. 1892CZCzech composer, pianist and choirmaster (1892–1958)
- Radoslav Kvapilb. 1934CZCzech music educator, composer and pianist
- Boleslav Kvapilb. 1934CZCzech artist
- Tomáš Kvapilb. 1955CZCzech minister of regional development of the CR, member of Czech Parliament (1998–2010) and local politician
- Vlastimil Kvapilb. 1958photographer
- Travis Kvapilb. 1976USAmerican racing driver
- Marek Kvapilb. 1985CZCzech ice hockey player
- Tereza Kvapil Pokornáb. 1986CZCzech social worker and philanthropist
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 17 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2.2K | #522 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 2.2K | #525 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 2.2K | #525 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 252 | #81,047 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 245 | #78,040 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 213 | #82,344 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 85 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 17 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 14 | #47,506 |
| 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
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Kvapil mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname for a quick, hasty person, from a derivative of the verb kvapit ‘be in a hurry’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kvapil?
- A machine transcription gives /kvapəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kvapil have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 2.2 thousand people named Kvapil, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kvapil most common?
- Kvapil is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kvapil?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 2,186 people named Kvapil, about 1 in 4.9 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/kvapilThe 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, “Kvapil”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.