Rudek
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈru.dɛk/(recorded in a dictionary) Polish · from Wiktionary
Rudek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country: 1,643 people, counted by dane.gov.pl in 2026.
- PLPoland1 in 23K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 511K
- CZCzechia1 in 595K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 41 (measured from records)
- 1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
1,643 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Rudek
- Polish:/ˈru.dɛk/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Portuguese:/ʁudek/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Rudek is found
(measured from records)Rudek 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 | 1,643 | 1 in 23K | 824 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 414 | 1 in 511K | 414 | Rudek | 41 |
| US United States | 259 | 1 in 1.3M | 282 | Rudek | 20 |
| AR Argentina | 21 | 1 in 2.2M | 21 | Rudek | 17 |
| CZ Czechia | 18 | 1 in 595K | 18 | — | — |
1,643 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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)- Klaus Rudekb. 1928DEGerman journalist and author
- Kerstin Rudekb. 1968DEGerman activist
- Sofia Rudekb. 1998DEGerman association football player
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Rudek?
- It depends on the language: in Polish /ˈru.dɛk/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /ʁudek/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Rudek?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Rudek, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Brazil, United States, Argentina and Czechia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Rudek most common?
- Rudek is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 23 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Rudek?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,643 people named Rudek in 2026, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Rudek?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rudekThe 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, “Rudek” — ranked 3793rd in Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.