Mashek
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Americanized form of Czech Masek
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈmæʃɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mashek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 2Kas Mašek(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 37Kas Mašek
- HRCroatia1 in 77Kas Mašek
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 Mashek 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)
- Record sources
- 67 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
5,265 named Mašek
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia, as Mašek
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Masek in US United States and Машек in RU Russia.
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)Americanized form of Czech Masek.
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)Mashek 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 | 5,265as Mašek | 1 in 2K | 5.3K | — | 1 |
| US United States | 1,224as Masek | 1 in 272K | 1.4K | Masek | 5 |
| PL Poland | 208as Masek | 1 in 184K | 105 | — | — |
| SK Slovakia | 147as Mašek | 1 in 37K | 147 | — | — |
| RU Russia | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Машек | 67 |
| HR Croatia | 55as Mašek | 1 in 77K | 55 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 40as Masek | 1 in 210K | 40 | — | — |
5,265 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 2020; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); 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)- Debra J. MashekUSsocial psychologist, Executive Director of Heterodox Academy
- Nan MashekUSCzech American author
- Douglas MashekUSresearcher
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 555 | #42,112 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 542 | #38,395 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 521 | #41,728 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Mashek mean, and where does it come from?
- Americanized form of Czech Masek. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Mashek?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmæʃɪk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Mashek have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 5.3 thousand people named Mašek, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Mashek most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Mashek itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Czechia's: the national register counts about 1 in 2.0 thousand people named Mašek.
- How common is the name Mashek?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 5,265 people named Mašek, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Mashek?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mashekThe 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, “Mashek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.