Mlynek
surname · Latin script
Meaning: occupational name from a pet form of mlynarz ‘miller’ (see Mlynarski)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mlɪnɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mlynek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 18K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 133K
- SKSlovakia1 in 181K
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.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 42 (measured from records)
- 1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
586 people
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mlýnek in CZ Czechia.
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)
occupational name from a pet form of mlynarz ‘miller’ (see Mlynarski).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mlynek 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 | 586 | 1 in 18K | 586 | Mlýnek | 27 |
| US United States | 257 | 1 in 1.3M | 257 | Mlynek | 27 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 992K | — | Mlynek | 15 |
| PL Poland | 46 | 1 in 832K | 24 | Mlynek | 42 |
| DK Denmark | 44 | 1 in 133K | 44 | — | — |
| SK Slovakia | 30 | 1 in 181K | 30 | Mlynek | 13 |
| NO Norway | 24 | 1 in 228K | 24 | — | 3 |
| PT Portugal | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 450K | — | Mlynek | 1 |
586 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Mlynek 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 Russian, var of Mlinek.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)
- Klaus Mlynekb. 1936DEGerman scientific archivist and historian
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 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 257 | #75,069 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 238 | #75,466 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 237 | #85,054 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 44 | #11,862 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 33 | #38,735 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 32 | #12,886 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 24 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 24 | #38,510 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 24 | #80,565 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 22 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 22 | #85,134 |
| 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
- What does the name Mlynek mean, and where does it come from?
- occupational name from a pet form of mlynarz ‘miller’ (see Mlynarski). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Mlynek?
- A machine transcription gives /mlɪnɪk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Mlynek have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 586 people named Mlynek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mlýnek.
- Where is Mlynek most common?
- Mlynek is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 18 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mlynek?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 586 people named Mlynek, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mlynekThe 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, “Mlynek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.