Polivka
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/poʊˈɫivkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Polivka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Czech Polívka.
- CZCzechia1 in 6.5K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 218K
- USUnited States1 in 503K
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
- 48 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.5K (inferred from the name graph)
1,658 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Czech Polívka.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where in the world
(measured from records)Polivka 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 | 1,658 | 1 in 6.5K | 1.7K | Polivka | 48 |
| US United States | 661 | 1 in 503K | 693 | Polivka | 34 |
| CA Canada | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 556K | — | Polivka | 4 |
| FR France | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | 3 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Polivka | 3 |
| SK Slovakia | 25 | 1 in 218K | 25 | Polivka | 13 |
| CH Switzerland | 13 | 1 in 646K | 13 | — | 3 |
1,658 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017, counting the spelling polívka. 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 2020; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)- Jaroslav Joseph Polivkab. 1886CZCzech engineer (1886–1960)
- Ken Polivkab. 1921USAmerican baseball player
- Dóra Polivkab. 1995HUHungarian rower
- Anne Elise PolivkaUSPh.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison 1991
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 693 | #35,059 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 689 | #31,704 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 661 | #34,314 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 13 | #50,156 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 12 | #72,094 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 12 | #17,485 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 2 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Polivka mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Czech Polívka. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Polivka?
- A machine transcription gives /poʊˈɫivkə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Polivka have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Polivka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled polivka.
- Where is Polivka most common?
- Polivka is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.5 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Polivka?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 1,658 people named Polivka, about 1 in 6.5 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/polivkaThe 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, “Polivka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.