Michalec
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a derivative of the personal name Michal (Czech), Michal (Polish) (see Michael)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mɪˈhɑɫɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Michalec is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 12K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 5.5K
- CZCzechia1 in 11K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 65 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.5K (inferred from the name graph)
3,213 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Slovakia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a derivative of the personal name Michal (Czech), Michal (Polish) (see Michael).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Michalec 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | — | 3,213 | 1 in 12K | 1.6K | Michalec | 65 |
| US United States | — | 1,080 | 1 in 308K | 1.1K | Michalec | 59 |
| SK Slovakia | #742 | 986 | 1 in 5.5K | 986 | Michalec | 34 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 980 | 1 in 11K | 987 | Michalec | 50 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 444K | — | Michalec | 20 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 214K | — | Michalec | 3 |
3,213 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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)
Michalec 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 Michal
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)
- Ivan Michalecb. 1929RURussian architect (1929-1993)
- Peter Michalecb. 1956SKSlovak soccer player
- Miroslav Michalecb. 1961SKCzechoslovak member of Slovak National Council, member of Czechoslovak parliament and Slovak nation politician (1961-2016)
- Beata Michalecb. 1964PLPolish historian
- Irena Michalcováb. 1964CZnot in their usual nameCzech politician
- Mickey Michalecb. 1982UScollege basketball player (2002–2006) Texas Tech; Oral Roberts
- Adam MichalecPLPolish astronomer
- Vladimira MichalcovaCZnot in their usual nameresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0003-4577-6112
- Michał MichalecPLresearcher
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 24 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.6K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.6K | #1,779 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.6K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.6K | #1,763 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,515 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1K | #23,315 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 987 | #1,360 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 986 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 980 | #1,387 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 961 | #26,703 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- 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)
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Michalec mean, and where does it come from?
- from a derivative of the personal name Michal (Czech), Michal (Polish) (see Michael). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Michalec?
- A machine transcription gives /mɪˈhɑɫɪk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Michalec have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 3.2 thousand people named Michalec, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled michalec.
- Where is Michalec most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Michalec is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 5.5 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Michalec?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3,213 people named Michalec in 2026, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Michalec compared with other names?
- In Slovakia, Michalec is the 742nd most common surname of 69,668 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Michalec?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/michalecThe 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, “Michalec” — the 742nd most common surname in Slovakia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.