Svika
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Svika is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 165K(measured from records)
- USUnited States≈1 in 28M
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
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 165K (inferred from the name graph)
65 people
Reference-verified
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 Švíka in CZ Czechia.
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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Svika 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 | 65 | 1 in 165K | 65 | Švíka | 5 |
| US United States | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 28M | listed | — | 1 |
65 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; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)
Svika 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 Swedish, to betray, to let down, to disappoint
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, indefinite genitive plural of svik
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, to betray
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)
- Tzvika Orenb. 1947ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli former military officer and industrialist
- Svika Pickb. 1949ILIsraeli musician
- Zvi Sherfb. 1951ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli basketball coach
- Zvika Greengoldb. 1952ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli politician
- Tzvika Kertznerb. 1954ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli film director
- Zvika Szternfeldb. 1955ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli poet (born 1955)
- Zvika Fogelb. 1956ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli politician
- Zvika Hadarb. 1966ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli actor, comedian and television host
- Zvika Neemanb. 1966USnot in their usual nameeconomist (Tel Aviv University)
- Tzvika Brotb. 1980ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli journalist and politician
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Svika have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 65 people named Svika, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled švíka.
- Where is Svika most common?
- Svika is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 165 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Svika?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 65 people named Svika, about 1 in 165 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Svika?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/svikaThe 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, “Svika”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.