Raček

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021

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

Raček is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SKSlovakia1 in 12K(measured from records)
  • CZCzechia1 in 23K
  • HRCroatia1 in 223K

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)

473 people

Record sources
34 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovakia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Racek in CZ Czechia, US United States, PL Poland and 1 more.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Raček 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 Raček is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia—4731 in 23K473Racek34
SK Slovakia#8004631 in 12K463Raček28
US United States—2781 in 1.2M278Racek21
PL Poland—791 in 485K42Racek16
GB United Kingdom—≈48 est.≈1 in 1.4M—Racek5
HR Croatia—191 in 223K19——

473 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; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)

Raček is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Croatian surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States

    Also written Racek, Рацек, Рачек, Raćek, Ráček

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Racek, Ráček

  • English surname8 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Racek, Ráček, Rácek

  • Russian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Рацек, Racek

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.

How to address them

(machine-generated)
FormalPoštovani Raček,Dear Raček, (English)
InformalPoštovani Raček,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Raček
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SK SlovakiaJÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census)1995463—
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—61#25,275
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202119#23,886
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202118—

Reference works 1

  • 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

How do you pronounce Raček?
A machine transcription gives /raʂek/ (IPA) for Croatian.
In which country does Raček have the most bearers?
In Czechia, the national register counted about 473 people named Raček, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled racek.
Where is Raček most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Raček is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 12 thousand people — even though Czechia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Raček?
In Czechia, the national register counted 473 people named Raček, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
How common is Raček compared with other names?
In Slovakia, Raček is the 800th most common surname of 69,668 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Raček” — the 800th most common surname in Slovakia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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