Mašek

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/maʃɛk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Mašek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Czech (Masek); from a short form of the personal name Tomdsek (see Tomasek) or possibly of a personal name beginning with Ma-, e.g. Mate] (see Matthew), Martin, or Mauricius (see Morris).

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 2K(measured from records)
  • SKSlovakia1 in 37K
  • HRCroatia1 in 77K

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)

5,265 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
11 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MašekLatin(measured from records)
МашекCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Masek in US United States.

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)

Czech (Masek); from a short form of the personal name Tomdsek (see Tomasek) or possibly of a personal name beginning with Ma-, e.g. Mate] (see Matthew), Martin, or Mauricius (see Morris).

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mašek 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.

Where Mašek is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia5,2651 in 2K5.3K——
US United States1,2241 in 272K1.4KMasek10
PL Poland2081 in 184K105——
SK Slovakia1471 in 37K147——
HR Croatia551 in 77K55Mašek11
CH Switzerland401 in 210K40—2

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; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Mašek is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Mas̆ek, Maŝek, Masek, Masĕk, Maşek

  • English surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Masek, Maşek

  • Czech surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, United States, Chile, Poland

    Languages: Czech, Spanish, Polish

    Also written Masek, Maśek

  • Hindi surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Masek, Maŝek

  • Turkish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Türkiye

    Also written Masek, Maşek

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Burkina Faso

    Also written Masek

9 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Mašek 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 zlw-ocs, a diminutive of the male given name Mach

    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)

1700180019002000Vincenc Mašek, b. 1755Kašpar Mašek, b. 1794Albín Mašek, b. 1804Kamilo Mašek, b. 1831Vítězslav Karel Mašek, b. 1865Zlatko Mašek, b. 1928Václav Mašek, b. 1941Ivan Mašek, b. 1948Jiri Masek, b. 1978Dominik Mašek, b. 1995

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)

FormalVážený pane / paní Mašek,Dear Mašek, (English)
InformalVážený pane / paní Mašek,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Mašek
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—5.3K#128
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—5.3K#128
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—5.3K#129
SK SlovakiaJÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census)1995147—
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202155#12,505
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202148—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202610—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—10#136,069
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20267—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—7#166,317

Reference works 3

  • 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 Mašek mean, and where does it come from?
Czech (Masek); from a short form of the personal name Tomdsek (see Tomasek) or possibly of a personal name beginning with Ma-, e.g. Mate] (see Matthew), Martin, or Mauricius (see Morris). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Mašek?
A machine transcription gives /maʃɛk/ (IPA) for Czech.
In which country does Mašek 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 Mašek most common?
Mašek is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.0 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Mašek?
In Czechia, the national register counted 5,265 people named Mašek, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.

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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, “Mašek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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