Sekera
surname · Latin script
Meaning: axe, hatchet
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sɛkəɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sekera is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- SKSlovakia1 in 26K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 33K
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 1.3M
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
- 32 (measured from records)
- 1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
320 people
Highest-authority source
Slovakia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
axe, hatchet
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sekera 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 | 320 | 1 in 33K | 321 | Sekera | 32 |
| SK Slovakia | 212 | 1 in 26K | 212 | Sekera | 24 |
| US United States | 191 | 1 in 1.7M | 191 | Sekera | 11 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | 6 | — | 3 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Sekera | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | 1 |
320 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; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Sekera is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, "section."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)
- Vladimír Sekerab. 1867CZdirector of an asylum for the deaf in Hradec Králové, Czechia (1867-??)
- Franz Sekerab. 1899ATAustrian university teacher (1899-1955)
- Zdeněk Sekerab. 1905CZAmerican scientist
- Friederike Sekerab. 1908ATAustrian librarian
- Horymír Sekerab. 1927CZCzech athlete (1927-2015)
- Jan Sekerab. 1935CZCzech art historian (1935-2015)
- Martin Sekerab. 1971CZGerman ice hockey player
- Robert Sekerab. 1974CZCzech businessman
- Miroslav Sekerab. 1975CZCzech child actor and pianist
- Andrej Sekerab. 1986SKSlovak ice hockey 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)
Attested in 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 321 | #4,228 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 320 | #5,139 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 212 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 191 | #95,545 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 189 | #90,652 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 185 | #103,399 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 6 | #203,151 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Sekera mean, and where does it come from?
- axe, hatchet Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sekera?
- A machine transcription gives /sɛkəɹə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Sekera have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 320 people named Sekera, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sekera.
- Where is Sekera most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sekera is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 26 thousand people — even though Czechia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sekera?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 320 people named Sekera, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sekera?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sekeraThe 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, “Sekera”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.