Vašek

given name · Latin script

Meaning: a diminutive of the male given name Václav

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

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

Vašek is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 4.9K(measured from records)
  • SKSlovakia1 in 7.3K
  • HRCroatia1 in 92K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Czechia (measured from records)

2,181 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
28 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 4.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

VašekLatin(measured from records)
ВасекCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Vasek in US United States, HR Croatia.

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(measured from records)

a diminutive of the male given name Václav

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Vašek 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 Vašek is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia2,1811 in 4.9K2.2K——
SK Slovakia7441 in 7.3K744——
US United States6411 in 519K670Vasek28
HR Croatia461 in 92K49Vasek11
AR Argentina351 in 1.3M35——

2,181 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; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)

Vašek is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Germany

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Vasek

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Vasek, Vas̆ek

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Chile, Honduras

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Vasek

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Mali

    Also written Vasek

  • Russian surname16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Васек, Вашек, Васёк, Vasyok, Vasek

11 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)

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)

InformalAhoj Vašek,Hi Vašek, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 4 countries.

Reference works 4

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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

Is Vašek a male or female name?
Vašek is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Vašek mean, and where does it come from?
a diminutive of the male given name Václav Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Vašek?
In the etymology graph, Slava is a form of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Vašek?
A machine transcription gives /vaʃɛk/ (IPA) for Czech.
In which country does Vašek have the most bearers?
In Czechia, the national register counted about 2.2 thousand people named Vašek, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Vašek most common?
Vašek is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.9 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Vašek?
In Czechia, the national register counted 2,181 people named Vašek, about 1 in 4.9 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/va%C5%A1ek

The 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, “Vašek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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