Pesek
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈpɛsɛk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pesek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Czech Pešek.
- CZCzechia1 in 2.8K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 16K
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 34K
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)
- Record sources
- 86 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
3,838 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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 Pešek in CZ Czechia, SK Slovakia.
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)Borrowed from Czech Pešek.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where in the world
(measured from records)Pesek 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 | #252 | 3,838 | 1 in 2.8K | 3.8K | Pešek | 56 |
| US United States | — | 1,417 | 1 in 235K | 1.5K | Pesek | 86 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 142K | — | Pesek | 5 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Pesek | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 399K | — | Pesek | 13 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 134 | 1 in 16K | 134 | — | 1 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 66 | 1 in 82K | 66 | Pešek | 12 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Pesek | 2 |
3,838 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); 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)Pesek is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In nij, pierced (esp. of ears, nose)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Serbo-Croatian, doggy, puppy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Slovenian, sand
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)- Thomas G. Pešekb. 1938USAmerican historian specializing in Eastern Europe
- Rosvita Pesekb. 1965SISlovenian journalist
- Michael Pesekb. 1968DEGerman cultural historian
- Igor PesekSIresearcher (ORCID 0000-0002-0878-7480)
- Albinca PesekSIresearcher
- Marjeta Blinc-PesekSIresearcher
- Matevž PesekSIresearcher
- Matevž PesekSISlovenian researcher
- Beatrix PesekHungarian ten-pin bowler
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.5K | #17,510 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,166 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,300 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 134 | #3,370 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 3 | #144,599 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 3 | #22,222 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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
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 Pesek mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Czech Pešek. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Pesek?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈpɛsɛk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Pesek have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 3.8 thousand people named Pesek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pešek.
- Where is Pesek most common?
- Pesek is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.8 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pesek?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 3,838 people named Pesek, about 1 in 2.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Pesek compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Pesek is the 252nd most common surname of 114,573 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pesekThe 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, “Pesek” — the 252nd most common surname in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.