Sebek
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Egyptian crocodile god
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈsɛbɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sebek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 4.7K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 16K
- RSSerbia≈1 in 35K
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
- 44 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.7K (inferred from the name graph)
2,255 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 Šebek in CZ Czechia, SK Slovakia, RS Serbia.
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)
Egyptian crocodile god
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sebek 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.
2,255 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 2020; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); 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)
Sebek 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 English, Alternative form of Sobek (Egyptian crocodile-headed god)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mqy, dull sound, as of fruit falling to the ground
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Hungarian, nominative plural of seb
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)
- Franz Sebekb. 1901ATAustrian trade unionist (1901–1943)
- Nick Sebekb. 1927USAmerican football player (1927-2007)
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 18 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 643 | #37,267 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 643 | #33,471 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 642 | #35,096 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #192,032 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 2 | #23,722 |
| 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
- 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
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
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 Sebek mean, and where does it come from?
- Egyptian crocodile god Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Sebek?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈsɛbɪk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Sebek have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Sebek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled šebek.
- Where is Sebek most common?
- Sebek is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sebek?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 2,255 people named Sebek, about 1 in 4.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Sebek compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Sebek is the 432nd 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/sebekThe 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, “Sebek” — the 432nd most common surname in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.