Vaněk

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/vaɲɛk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Vaněk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country, where it is the 56th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 1.4K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 124K
  • SDSudan≈1 in 6.2K

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)

7,607 people

Sources
271 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Vanek in US United States, DE Germany, SK Slovakia and 3 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.

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 in the world(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.

Where Vaněk is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia#567,6071 in 1.4K7.6KVaněk82
SD Sudan#887≈7,300 est.≈1 in 6.2K—Vanek1
US United States—2,6791 in 124K2.7KVanek271
SA Saudi Arabia—≈420 est.≈1 in 82K—Vanek2
DE Germany—≈380 est.≈1 in 213K—Vanek59
AT Austria—≈230 est.≈1 in 39K—Vanek26
SK Slovakia#3861031 in 53K103Vanek49
HR Croatia—801 in 53K85——

7,607 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Vaněk is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Vanek, Vanĕk, Vanêk

  • Hindi surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Vanek, Vanëk, Vanĕk, Vañek

  • Russian given name23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus

    Languages: Russian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian

    Also written Ванек, Ванёк, Vanek, Ванэк, Vanyok

  • Croatian surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Canada

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Vanek, Vanék, Ванек, Vanĕk, Ванeк

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Indonesia

    Also written Vanek

  • Turkish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Türkiye

    Also written Vanek, Vanëk

  • Korean surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Korea

    Also written Vanek

7 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Karel Vaněk, b. 1887Jindřich Vaněk, b. 1888Jan Vaněk, b. 1891Jaroslav Vanek, b. 1930František Vaněk, b. 1931Zdeněk Vaněk, b. 1968Jiří Vaněk, b. 1978Petr Vaněk, b. 1979Tomáš Vaněk, b. 1988Ondřej Vaněk, b. 1990

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)

FormalVážený pane / paní Vaněk,Dear Vaněk, (English)
InformalVážený pane / paní Vaněk,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Vaněk
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—7.6K#55
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—7.6K#56
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—7.6K#56
SK SlovakiaJÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census)1995103—

Reference works 3

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 Vaněk?
A machine transcription gives /vaɲɛk/ (IPA) for Czech.
In which country does Vaněk have the most bearers?
In Czechia, the national register counted about 7.6 thousand people named Vaněk, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vaněk.
Where is Vaněk most common?
Vaněk is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.4 thousand people carrying 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 Czechia, Vaněk is the 56th most common surname of 114,573 surnames recorded there.

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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 56th most common surname in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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