Marhefka
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. from a derivative of the German personal name Marhold (see Marolt)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/mɝˈhɛfkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Marhefka is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- SKSlovakia
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)1. from a derivative of the German personal name Marhold (see Marolt). 2. from a derivative of the personal name Mares (see Mares).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)- Joe Marhefkab. 1902USAmerican football player (1902-2003)
- Boris Marhefkab. 1987SKSlovak association football referee
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 512 | #40,265 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 480 | #44,730 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 479 | #47,689 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 36 | #36,530 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 36 | #12,317 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6 | #89,778 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #229,610 |
| 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
- Where does the name Marhefka come from?
- 1. from a derivative of the German personal name Marhold (see Marolt). 2. from a derivative of the personal name Mares (see Mares). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Marhefka?
- A machine transcription gives /mɝˈhɛfkə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Marhefka mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. from a derivative of the German personal name Marhold (see Marolt).
- In which country does Marhefka have the most bearers?
- Marhefka is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marhefkaThe 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, “Marhefka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.