Vaník
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: JÚĽŠ SAV, 1995
/vaɲiːk/(machine-generated) Czech · model-generated
Vaník is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- SKSlovakia1 in 31K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 31K
- USUnited States1 in 2M
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.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- 1 in 31K (inferred from the name graph)
340 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovakia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Vanìk in CZ Czechia and Vanik in US United States.
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 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Vaník 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 | 340 | 1 in 31K | 343 | Vanìk | 20 |
| SK Slovakia | 176 | 1 in 31K | 176 | Vaník | 16 |
| US United States | 165 | 1 in 2M | 182 | Vanik | 4 |
| IN India | 140 | 1 in 9.5M | 140 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 7 | 1 in 5.5M | 27 | — | — |
340 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017, counting the spelling vaník. 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20). 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)- Jan Vaníkb. 1891ATCzech footballer
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 343 | #4,020 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 340 | #4,795 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 176 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- How do you pronounce Vaník?
- It depends on the language: in Czech /vaɲiːk/; in Slovak /ˈvaɲiːk/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Vaník have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 340 people named Vaník, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vanìk.
- Where is Vaník most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vaník is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 31 thousand people — even though Czechia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Vaník?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 340 people named Vaník, about 1 in 31 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Vaník?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/van%C3%ADkThe 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, “Vaník”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.