Vaněk
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: JÚĽŠ SAV, 1995
/ˈvaɲɛk/(recorded in a dictionary) Czech · from Wiktionary
Vaněk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Sudan than in any other country. In Czechia it is the 56th most common surname.
- CZCzechia1 in 1.4K(measured from records)
- ATAustria≈1 in 31Kfew records
- SKSlovakia1 in 53K
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.
- Sudan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 271 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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 Vanek in US United States, CA Canada, SK Slovakia and 4 more.
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.
How to pronounce Vaněk
- Czech:/ˈvaɲɛk/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Vaněk is found
(measured from records)Vaněk 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SD Sudan | #887 | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | — | Vanek | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | #56 | 7,607 | 1 in 1.4K | 7.6K | Vaněk | 82 |
| US United States | — | 2,679 | 1 in 124K | 2.7K | Vanek | 271 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 104K | 1 | Vanek | 48 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 599K | — | Vanek | 1 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Vanek | 26 |
| SK Slovakia | #386 | 103 | 1 in 53K | 103 | Vanek | 49 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Vanek | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jaroslav Vanekb. 1930CZCzech economist (1930-2017)
- Jiří Vaněkb. 1978CZCzech tennis player
- Ondřej Vaněkb. 1990CZCzech Supercup winner, soccer player and soccer representant
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Vaněk?
- In Czech /ˈvaɲɛk/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Vaněk?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.2 thousand people named Vaněk in the Sudan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vanek. After it come Czechia, United States, Canada and Nigeria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Vaněk most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vaněk is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 1.4 thousand people — even though Sudan holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Vaněk?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 7,607 people named Vaněk, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Vaněk compared with other names?
- In the Sudan, Vaněk is the 887th most common surname of 11,073 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Vaněk?
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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%C4%9BkThe 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, “Vaněk” — the 887th most common surname in the Sudan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.