Vavrinec
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Vavrinec is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From vavrín (“laurel”) + -ec, a calque from Latin Laurentius.
- CZCzechia1 in 72K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia≈1 in 98K
- USUnited States≈1 in 4M
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
- 26 (measured from records)
- 1 in 72K (inferred from the name graph)
148 people
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From vavrín (“laurel”) + -ec, a calque from Latin Laurentius.
Sources 1
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vavrinec 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 | 148 | 1 in 72K | 197 | Vavrinec | 26 |
| US United States | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 4M | — | Vavrinec | 8 |
| SK Slovakia | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 98K | — | Vavrinec | 21 |
148 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017, counting the spelling vavřinec. 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; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot. 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)
Vavrinec 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.
Czech form of LAURENCE . Short form: Vavro. Pet forms: Vav ík, Vav ini ek .
as a word
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)
- Miroslava Federerb. 1978SKnot in their usual nameSwiss tennis 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 69 | #22,814 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 69 | #9,175 |
Reference works 2
- 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 Vavrinec mean, and where does it come from?
- From vavrín (“laurel”) + -ec, a calque from Latin Laurentius. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- What are other forms of the name Vavrinec?
- In the etymology graph, Lau, Larkin and Lorenz are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Vavrinec have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 148 people named Vavrinec, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vavrinec.
- Where is Vavrinec most common?
- Vavrinec is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 72 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Vavrinec?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 148 people named Vavrinec, about 1 in 72 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vavrinecThe 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, “Vavrinec”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.