Lilek
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
/ʎɪlɛk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lilek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.
- SISlovenia1 in 21K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 29K
- CZCzechia1 in 465K
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.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 14 (measured from records)
- 1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
144 people, 2021
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lilek 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | 144 | 1 in 29K | 144 | Lilek | 14 |
| US United States | 109 | 1 in 3.1M | 112 | Lilek | 4 |
| SI Slovenia | 101 | 1 in 21K | 101 | Lilek | 5 |
| CZ Czechia | 23 | 1 in 465K | 23 | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | — | 2 | — | — |
144 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names). 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)Lilek 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 Czech, plant of the genus Solanum
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)- Zdenko Lilekb. 2000SISlovene police officer
- Nataša LilekSIresearcher
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 144 | #5,753 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 127 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 112 | #147,954 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 109 | #150,452 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 108 | #141,788 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 101 | #4,372 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 23 | #48,734 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 23 | #14,789 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
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
- How do you pronounce Lilek?
- A machine transcription gives /ʎɪlɛk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lilek have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 144 people named Lilek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lilek.
- Where is Lilek most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lilek is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 21 thousand people — even though Croatia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lilek?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 144 people named Lilek in 2021, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Lilek?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lilekThe 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, “Lilek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.